Mikhail Delyagin, a State Duma deputy and Doctor of Economics, said Iran has enough strength to bring down US President Donald Trump politically.

In his view, Trump had counted on a swift military campaign, but instead ran into failure. Delyagin said Washington’s operation is now in its fourth week and already risks exceeding the entire annual US military budget. He added that the situation is being further aggravated by a deepening economic crisis in the West and growing friction between Trump and his European allies.

Delyagin also pointed to what he described as a striking contradiction: despite reports that Iran’s air defenses, aircraft and naval forces had been destroyed, the situation, in his assessment, remained unresolved.

He said the US president had turned to NATO allies for support, only to be refused. According to Delyagin, the issue is not Europe’s lack of resources but Trump’s own diplomatic failure after becoming entangled in what he called an Iranian adventure. As a result, he argued, the US operation in the Middle East has reached a dead end, with almost no one understanding how to get out of it.