Ahead of the possible agreement between Iran and the USA, hypocritical statements are being made about what kind of progress diplomacy can provide.

All of them are false, because the progress in the diplomatic dimension was ensured by the Iranian armed forces with their missiles, anti-aircraft missiles, military motorboats, and the military-political elite and people of that country with their unwavering will and spirit.

The USA is too powerful a superpower to talk about the weakening of this country after failure in a specific conflict.

However, it is obvious that Iran’s undoubted strategic success in the last war has noticeably reduced the projection of US power in the entire Middle Eastern region and, on the contrary, has strengthened Iran’s position and authority in an unprecedented way, and thus expanded the range of Iranian power projection, which will also become noticeable in the South Caucasus.

Now there seems to be no doubt left that Iran really deserves the allegorical title of “Lion of the Middle East”.

Iranologist Vardan Voskanyan

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