According to Mohsen Rezaei, secretary of the Supreme National Security Council of the Islamic Republic, Donald Trump is seeking to launch a new “economic war,” and the Islamic Republic will “settle for it” more than “Sacred Defense.” He, citing a Financial Times report about the rise in the yield of U.S. long-term bonds, said this economic war was “done by America against itself,” and that Trump’s policies have put a huge debt on the shoulders of the people of America and that country’s allies, including Japan, and have brought the yield on U.S. 30-year bonds to its highest level in the 21st century. Rezaei also claimed that in order to finance its needs, the United States must borrow at a rate 3.7 times that of 2020, and that this figure, in the scale of $40 trillion in bonds, has imposed a cost “multiple times” the annual budget of the Islamic Republic on the people and American companies.