Hanging tough, alone but not afraid, Iran goes on doing the best it can, against formidable odds.

Ordinarily, one ignores what her religiously impaired leaders have to say about anything: One recognizes that they're in a tight place, geopolitically speaking, and one expects usually that such constraint favors neither eloquence nor good sense.  But occasionally one of their leaders lets off a good one--like today, when Prime Minister Khameni said (I paraphrase), "The United States is a failing power, and Trump will soon be forgotten."  I agree with the first part of that statement--the United States is indeed on the decline--but I doubt that fools as egregious as Trump are so easy to forget:  Even austere, high-minded clerical statesmen are likely to remember Heliogabalas, or the perfectly silly son of Marcus Aurelius.