In a message posted on his X network on Wednesday, Ghalibaf referred to the US failure in its unprovoked wars by quoting a line from US Vice President JD Vance’s 2016 autobiographical book, Hillbilly Elegy.
“We felt trapped in two unwinnable wars and a disproportionate share of fighters came from our neighborhoods — JDV, Hillbilly Elegy, Ch 11,” he wrote in his post.
The top parliamentarian mocked the US by adding a comment, alongside Vance’s quote, that is “Hillbilly 2 incoming. America’s poor & forgotten will foot the bill for the broligarchs, Dimon the demon, and the beltway war merchants”.
Ghalibaf was referring to JPMorgan Chase & Co. CEO Jamie Dimon, an important figure in the circle of war financiers, whom he called “Dimon the demon,” as well as other warmonger oligarchs close to the White House, and the lobby benefiting from wars in Washington.
The Iranian parliament speaker has repeatedly tried to turn the attention of the public toward an illegal war launched on Iran by Trump that the US cannot win, but Americans have to pay the cost of aggression.
