“If the United States does not end this aggression, it faces two possible scenarios: a war of attrition or a humiliating defeat,” said Iran’s ambassador to Spain, Reza Zabib, yesterday at the Club Siglo XXI during a conference that completely filled the room.
The Iranian diplomat maintained his defiant tone against the American-Israeli coalition, also emphasizing that “there can be no peace” with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, “since ‘Greater Israel’ and peace are antonymous concepts”.
Zabib admitted that the United States may restart bombings, as Donald Trump has recently threatened, “but it has been proven that this will change nothing”. The head of Iran’s mission in Spain listed several confirmed keys in this war that he believes corroborate his theses: that American military power has limits; that the United States is no longer reliable; that they could not overthrow the Iranian regime; and that, in summary, the U.S. government really knows nothing about Iran.
The ambassador admitted that, considering all of the above, Americans and Israelis “may have achieved a tactical victory, but also an undeniable strategic defeat in a war that is not a priority for the United States,” as it is for Israel.
The Iranian ambassador said that the U.S. president should “end the aggression against his country, accept a fair negotiation, and not betray the diplomatic path for the third time,” if he wants to end the conflict, before three variables turn against him and his most immediate political future: “markets, ammunition, and ‘midterm’. “For these three reasons,” he explained, “there is not much support in the United States for warlike theses.”
On the contrary, if Washington decides to continue the war, “Iran can play with the terrain and wear down the enemy.” “We are talking about geography versus technology,” argued Reza Zabib, “and so far what has been proven is that technology is not everything.” Furthermore, in his opinion, “Iran has demonstrated greater military capability than imagined” by Washington’s strategists.
The Iranian ambassador concluded by assuring that, despite his government having “no confidence” in negotiations with the United States, “we will continue negotiating just in case there is any possibility and to demonstrate that we do not oppose negotiating.” But he made it very clear that everything also hinges on Lebanon: “Either there is total peace, or total war.”
