Iran's supreme leader has rejected President Trump's warnings of an extended US naval blockade, declaring America suffered a "shameful defeat." Conflict resolution expert Oliver McTernan stated Iran "will not capitulate," describing any aggression against Iran as a "miscalculation."

Iran's supreme leader declared Thursday that the United States had suffered a shameful defeat, defiantly rejecting a warning from President Donald Trump that an economically punishing US naval blockade could be enforced for months to come. Speaking with FRANCE 24's Sharon Gaffney, Oliver McTernan, director and co-founder of Forward Thinking, says that Iran "will not capitulate" adding that "it was a miscalculation rushing in an illicit aggression against Iran".