‘Imagine having 40 million on food stamps’: Ghalibaf hits back at Trump Iranian Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf has hit back at US President Donald Trump after he claimed Iran needed American food exports, saying Trump was projecting his country's own economic problems onto Iran. In a post on X on Thursday, Ghalibaf wrote: "Imagine having forty-something million of your own citizens on food stamps and calling another nation hungry. This is not a proclamation.