Iranian researcher Amir Mousavi, a former advisor the Iranian Defense Minister, said in a March 5, 2019 debate on Al-Jazeera Network (Qatar) about America's influence in today's world that the U.S. "is finished." He added that America's prestige throughout the world has diminished and that it is now a rogue state. Egyptian-American political analyst Magdi Khalil, President of the Middle East Freedom Forum, criticized Mousavi for his comments and said that it is “laughable” for Iran to claim the U.S. is finished. He said that there is a Shiite-Sunni war that people do not want to acknowledge, and that the Shiite "resistance axis" has already destroyed Iraq, Syria, and Yemen, and is on its way to destroying Lebanon, as well.
