The neighboring Islamic Republic of Iran has been at war with the United States and Israel for about 17 days, since the start of an undeclared war by the latter.

While the US leadership continues to make contradictory statements, stating that they are winning, then denying that statement, then emphasizing that they have destroyed the Iranian air force and leadership, the Russian side records that the plan to conquer Iran in one day has failed. Today, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov announced that the consequences of the conflict over Iran have gone beyond the regional borders of the Middle East and have reached global dimensions.

“Those who, parallel to these events, deal with the response to aggression, who carry out terrorism against energy infrastructures, oil tankers, commit terrorist acts, of course, they probably want to draw attention to themselves. But the consequences are much wider. And they are no longer regional at all, they have a global scale,” Lavrov noted.

“As for the prospects of this conflict, it is difficult to say. Recently, US President Trump said that Iran is, I quote, “totally crushed”.

And on the same day, the representative of the Israel Defense Forces announced: “We still have a thousand targets ahead of us, and we will work towards those targets at least until Pesach,” that is, at least three more weeks. Therefore, it is difficult to predict what consequences this crisis may have, how it may end, if they do not immediately stop, come to their senses and start working out agreements that will not fail this time,” Lavrov said. According to him, “guarantees are needed” for that.

“I perfectly understand that Iran needs such guarantees,” the Russian Foreign Minister added.

According to him, the plan to conquer Iran in one day has failed.

“If they expected that in one day, in a few hours, they would achieve the task of completely subjugating this state to them, then, probably, they now understand how much they were wrong, how misguided they were,” Lavrov said.

Iranian Foreign Minister Seyed Abbas Araghchi also stated that the USA and Israel have already learned a good lesson by attacking Iran.

“I assume that by now they have already learned a good lesson, they have understood what kind of nation they are dealing with, a nation that will not allow itself to hesitate in terms of defense and is ready to continue the war as long as it is necessary and where it is necessary,” said Araghchi, whose words were quoted by the Iranian Foreign Ministry.

According to him, Tehran intends to continue military operations “until US President Donald Trump admits his mistake” in the military operation against the Islamic Republic.

“Our powerful armed forces will continue to fight until the US president realizes that the illegal war he has imposed on both the Americans and the Iranians is wrong and must never be repeated.” The victims should receive compensation,” Araghchi wrote on social networks. At the same time, he announced Iran’s “willingness to discuss any proposal that will lead to a just end to the war.”

168.amin a conversation with Russian analyst Vladimir Yevseyev said that the US-Israeli attack on Iran is a classic example of how great powers miscalculate the adversary’s military-political resistance and the regional environment.

According to him, in the first phase of the attack, they acted in the scenario of applying quick pressure and achieving a quick result. at the initial stage of the attack, the US and Israel were guided by the calculation that quick and intense military strikes would force Iran to retreat quickly, because they assumed that Iran’s military infrastructure could be hit quickly, Iran would not want a large-scale escalation, and regional actors would not intervene.

However, under the leadership of Vladimir Yevseyev, the problem began at the stage when Iran turned the war into a full-scale escalation and a full-scale war, responding to the US-Iranian military operation with the psychology of a full-scale war.

He also believes that the miscalculation also referred to the underestimation of Iran’s resistance network, Iran’s strategy is not based only on the army, but also on regional partners.

“In Washington, perhaps, it was assumed that it was possible to increase military pressure as much as necessary, while maintaining control over it. However, in reality, in such conflicts, the opponent often responds not at the same level, but with disproportionate steps, which violates the initial calculations.

Another miscalculation is misjudging the regional environment, the Middle East is a complex region that has changed a lot in recent years as well. In this environment, it is difficult even for the great powers. Therefore, because of all this, the attempt to get a quick strategic result turned into a long and more complicated conflict. This will be extended, I think, until Iran receives certain guarantees,” Vladimir Yevseyev said.

In his assessment, a prolonged military confrontation is not in the interests of any side, but it is definitely not in the interest of the United States, which will find it difficult to fight a long war in a war that is very expensive due to the distance.

“I think, however, this war will not have direct consequences for the South Caucasus if the regional countries continue their current positions, although I think Iran would like to get more support from all partner countries and is conducting even more active diplomacy at this stage. Henceforth, the expanding influence of the US in the South Caucasus will be an even bigger problem for Iran, negotiating with which the US hit Iran twice,” said Vladimir Yevseyev.

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