Iranians shatter illusion of invasion against Iran: FM spox

In a post on his X account on Sunday, Esmaeil Baghaei wrote, “In the Roman mind, Rome was the undisputed center of the world. Yet the Iranians shattered that illusion; when Marcus Julius Philippus (Philip the Arab) marched east against Persia, the campaign did not result in Roman victory — it ended in a peace established on Sasanian terms: the emperor had to come to terms!”