India, Oct. 3 -- Iran's security council official Mohsen Rezaei on Saturday hit back at US President Donald Trump's claim that Tehran was approaching surrender, saying America would only "win in its imagination".

Replying to Trump's claim that Tehran was "ready to fold up", the secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council said he was the "worst president in American history."

This comes even as the US is attempting to increase economic pressure on Iran and cut off its financial sources, even blockading the latter's crude exports. Meanwhile, the diplomacy deadlock between the nations continued, with Trump publicly rejecting Tehran's proposal.

In a post on his official X handle, Rezaei said, "After one failure after another, the...