本周，伊朗发布了一封长达14390字的致美国人公开信，宣称伊朗政权已战胜美国，并暗示双方通过外交途径解决持续七个月的战争也未取得任何进展。
Iran published a 14,390-word letter to Americans this week proclaiming the regime’s victory over the US, suggesting the two sides were no closer to resolving their seven-month war through diplomatic means.
一名彭博专栏作家写道，伊朗声称自己“摧毁了美国在整个海湾地区的军事基地，迫使美国海军撤退，并毁坏了价值数十亿美元的高端雷达和飞机”，这些说法“部分属实，但有所夸大，就像这封信严重淡化了伊朗革命卫队自身的损失一样”。
Iran claimed it “decimated America’s military bases across the Gulf, forced the US Navy into retreat and destroyed billions of dollars-worth of high-end radar and aircraft,” a Bloomberg columnist wrote, which is all “partly true, though overstated, just as the letter wildly understates the IRGC’s own losses.”
路透社报道称，如果华盛顿恢复大规模打击，德黑兰正在准备更加强硬的回应。伊朗裔美国专家在《外交事务》上写道，伊朗领导人“从来就不太信任美国谈判代表；如今，他们几乎完全失去了信任”，并正在准备“一种以不断升级和持续进攻为特征的战略……”——布伦丹·鲁贝里
Tehran is preparing a more forceful response if Washington resumes large-scale strikes, Reuters reported. Iran’s leaders “never had much faith in American negotiators; now, they have virtually none,” an Iranian-American expert wrote in Foreign Affairs, and are preparing “a strategy… defined by escalation and continuous offense.”— Brendan Ruberry