Ghalibaf made the comments during a meeting with visiting Bafel Talabani, the head of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK), in Tehran on Tuesday, where he praised the resilience of the Iranian nation and armed forces in repelling the aggression launched by the US and Israel since February 28.
The speaker said Washington likely did not anticipate such fierce resistance or the scale of its military and political defeat.
“In the war started by the Americans, our great nation and armed forces showed how they can overcome the US and the Zionist regime,” Ghalibaf stated on Tuesday.