The ongoing military operation against Iran demonstrates that the United States has lost control of its own foreign policy by relying on the calculations of the Israeli authorities, Omani Foreign Minister Sayyid Badr Albusaidi said in an article for The Economist.
"The biggest mistake of the American administration, of course, was that it allowed itself to be drawn into this war at all. This is not America's war, and there is no likely scenario in which both Israel and America get what they want from it. Let's hope that America's desire for regime change is just rhetoric. At the same time, Israel is openly seeking the overthrow of the [ruling regime] of the Islamic Republic and probably cares little about how and by whom the country will be governed after achieving this goal," he wrote.
The Omani minister noted that "the Israeli leadership seems to have convinced America that Iran was so weakened by sanctions, internal divisions, and the US-Israeli bombing of its nuclear facilities last June that an unconditional surrender would quickly follow the initial attack and the assassination of the Supreme Leader." According to him, "to achieve Israel's stated goal, a long military campaign will be required," in which America will have to use ground troops.
The head of the Omani foreign ministry pointed out that it is in the national interests of the US and Iran to stop the conflict as soon as possible. "This is an unpleasant truth because it shows how much America has lost control of its own foreign policy. But this must be said," he emphasized.
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