"Hollywood Delusions": Iran General's 6,000 Years Reply To "Stone Age" Barb

Hitting back at the US threat of blasting Iran back to the "Stone Age", an Iranian military commander has said that it is the US that is taking its soldiers back to their graves and that it is delusional for a country with a 250-year history to threaten a civilisation 6,000 years old.

Brigadier General Seyed Majid Moosavi commands the aerospace force of Iran's elite Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. "It is you who are taking your soldiers to their graves, not Iran, whom you seek to drag back to the Stone Age. Hollywood delusions have so poisoned your minds that, with your paltry 250-year history, you threaten a civilization over 6,000 years old," he said on X in response to a post by Pete Hegseth, the United States Secretary of Defense.

Hegseth had said in a post, "Back to the Stone Age." His post after US President Donald Trump threatened to blast Iran "back to the Stone Ages".

"Iran's New Regime President, much less Radicalized and far more intelligent than his predecessors, has just asked the United States of America for a CEASEFIRE! We will consider when Hormuz Strait is open, free, and clear. Until then, we are blasting Iran into oblivion or, as they say, back to the Stone Ages," he said in a post on X.

The conflict in the Middle East, which began with the US-Israel airstrikes on Iran on February 28, has entered its fifth week. The US attack killed Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

Iran retaliated by bombing the assets of the US and its allies in the Gulf. Tehran has also blocked the movement of ships through the Strait of Hormuz, the transit route for 20 per cent of global oil and gas supply. The blockade has raised crude oil prices and sparked energy security concerns in key markets such as India and China. 

While Trump has claimed that the US forces will meet their goals shortly, Iran's military establishment has threatened a wider counter-attack.