Tehran, May 1 -- Iran's parliament speaker Mohammad Bagher Qalibaf challenged the US naval blockade with a sharp geographical rebuke and a unit conversion lesson for the Pentagon.
Qalibaf has publicly ridiculed the United States naval blockade imposed on Iran, arguing that the sheer scale of the country's borders makes any attempt to seal it off a geographic impossibility.
In a post on X, Qalibaf compared Iran's geography to a hypothetical situation in the United States, suggesting the construction of two long walls, one stretching from New York City to the West Coast and another from Los Angeles to the East Coast. He claimed that even such a scenario would fall short of Iran's total border length.
"If you build two walls, one from NYC t...