India, March 20 -- Iran's foreign minister Abbas Araghchi on Friday drew an analogy that many Americans draw whenever they disagree with a war their leaders start or perpetuate - that it's like Vietnam all over again. Araghchi used it as a direct threat, claiming that while Donald Trump and his fellow American leaders continue to say the US "is winning" in Iran, the situation on the ground is different.

He pointedly referred to one of the most discredited episodes in US military history - the so-called "Five O'Clock Follies", daily military press briefings in Saigon in the 1960s projecting optimism even as the US lost over 50,000 soldiers of its own in a conflict that killed millions.

This comes at a time when Trump is facing heat from ...