Monday, January 22, 2024

The Diplomatic Option toward Iran is Self-Destructive (video)

by Ambassador (ret.) Yoram Ettinger

Synopsis:

*The US diplomatic option induced the transformation of Iran from "the American policeman of the Gulf" to “the largest anti-American venomous octopus in the world.”

*The diplomatic option has deluded itself that a financial and diplomatic bonanza would induce Iran’s Ayatollahs to abandon their 1,400-year-old religious, fanatic, anti-US vision.

*The diplomatic option has suspended most economic (especially oil) sanctions, increasing Iran’s national income by some $100bn (oil exports), mostly dedicated to bolstering its global anti-US terror and drug trafficking network, with a focus on Latin America.

*The diplomatic option has severely eroded the US stature in Latin America and its global posture of deterrence, benefitting Russia, China and anti-US Islamic terrorism.

*The 45-year-failure of the diplomatic option behooves the US to consider the options of regime-change and a credible military threat.

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