Iranian Parliament Speaker Mohammad Ghalibaf, citing reports from CNN and other US media outlets on rising inflation in the US, satirized the economic threats previously made by the US government against Iran. The reports pointed out that the energy shock triggered by the Iran war is continuing to spread to other sectors of the US economy. Ghalibaf wrote, "Let's calculate the percentages, not the odds of winning, but the rate of increase." He also stated that the deadlines for the US's previous threats, such as "they will have nothing in two weeks," "the oil wells will explode in three days," and "economic Normandy landings," have all passed, sarcastically remarking, "Time is relative, and it has proven to be perhaps even meaningless. Should the US Treasury Department win a Nobel Prize in applied physics?"
