Top Iran official says U.S. focus on economic warfare shows it has failed militarily : NPR

"The Americans and the Israelis have realized that they cannot handle Iran … in the field of a hard military war, so they have entered into a cognitive war and an economic war," he said during a visit to neighboring Iraq...

 https://www.npr.org/2026/08/21/nx-s1-5940610/iran-us-threat-economic-warfare