In a post on his X account on Wednesday, Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf cited a passage from Chapter 11 of Hillbilly Elegy, the memoir written by US Vice President JD Vance, describing how disadvantaged American communities disproportionately bore the burden of past US wars.
The Iranian parliament speaker argued that the same pattern is now repeating itself, denouncing wealthy elites and Washington’s “war merchants” for pushing the US toward another costly conflict.
“’We felt trapped in two unwinnable wars and a disproportionate share of fighters came from our neighborhood’ — JDV, Hillbilly Elegy, Ch 11.,” Qalibaf wrote.
“Hillbilly 2 incoming. America's poor & forgotten will foot the bill for the broligarchs, Dimon the demon, and the beltway war merchants,” he added.
Qalibaf was referring to Jamie Dimon, an American banker and chairman and chief executive officer of JPMorgan Chase & Co., the largest US bank by assets.
Dimon is regarded as one of the most important figures among the financial backers of the US-Israeli war of aggression against Iran and has recently made hostile remarks against Iranians.