Army Spokesperson: Iranian Attacks Forced US to Revisit Regional Strategy
Tehran’s retaliatory operations against the United States forced Washington to revisit its regional strategy, Iranian Army Spokesman Brigadier General Mohammad Akraminia stated.
Coordinated operations by the Army and the Islamic Revolution Guard Corps (IRGC), including airstrikes, missile attacks, and drone operations against US positions in Kuwait, Qatar, and Erbil, Iraq, have brought Washington’s regional strategy to a halt and forced it to alter its strategic policies.Turning to Iran's recent retaliatory military operations, Akraminia said Tehran launched the strikes after the United States violated its commitments under a Memorandum of Understanding reached last month, and attempted to establish an illegal shipping route through the Strait of Hormuz in violation of the MoU.Over the past 15 days, he added, the military operations focused on US military bases in Jordan, Kuwait, and Bahrain, describing them as among Washington's most important military installations in the region.According to the spokesperson, decades of US investment in regional military infrastructure, particularly after the 2003 invasion of Iraq, had made those facilities strategically significant.However, as a result of Iran’s reprisal, many US facilities across the region have suffered damage severe enough to prevent them from carrying out their previous missions, he stated.
Akraminia cited the US Fifth Fleet in Bahrain as a case in point. “There is now virtually nothing left of this base,” he stressed, hailing the Iranian operations for rendering the outpost effectively unusable.The spokesperson referred to US President Donald Trump’s acknowledgement that Washington had supplied weapons to counterrevolutionary elements based in Iraq's Kurdistan Region, but noted that Iranian strikes has robbed those elements of their operational capability and virtually destroyed the American military infrastructure in Erbil.The military official credited the success of the drone strikes among the operations to Iran’s employing a new generation of loitering munitions, citing deployment of the country’s Arash-2 drones.Akraminia described Iran's military strategy in the face of the American violations as one of "retaliatory deterrence".He said the Islamic Republic's objective was to raise the cost of aggression sufficiently to deter future raids.
In the face of the retaliation, the United States has reached a strategic impasse, lacking a coherent strategy either to continue the war or bring it to an end, the spokesperson continued. The official cited contradictory statements by the US president as evidence of strategic confusion.Akraminia stated that the United States would also bear the greatest long-term strategic costs of the cycle arising out of its violations in light of the significant economic, geopolitical, and security consequences that have resulted from the Islamic Republic’s reprisal.Elsewhere in his remarks, the official noted how the United States and the Israeli regime also failed to achieve either their declared or broader objectives during their unprovoked onslaught against the Islamic Republic that took place from February 28 to April 7.
He noted that Washington's publicly stated goals included destroying Iran's nuclear and missile capabilities and eliminating the regional Resistance Front, besides reminding how the US president had also demanded Iran's “unconditional surrender” during the early stages of the assault.According to the Akraminia, the adversaries also pursued broader objectives, including overthrowing Iran’s Islamic establishment, partitioning the country, and advancing the so-called “Greater Israel” project that features Tel Aviv’s expansionist ambitions.None of those objectives was, however, achieved, he stated, attributing the outcome to public support, the Islamic Republic’s sagacious leadership, and the performance of the country's Armed Forces.“Tonight marks the 147th consecutive night of the people's presence and support for the Islamic establishment, and this steadfastness demonstrates that the enemy has failed to accomplish its objectives,” the spokesman stressed, referring to unfailing presence across the country’s streets in support of the Islamic Republic and its defensive and retaliatory operations.
The United States and Israel unleashed a war on Iran in late February, assassinating Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei and several military commanders and officials. The two regimes also attacked nuclear facilities, civilian sites, schools and hospitals across the country which led to martyrdom of thousands of ordinary people.Iran’s Armed Forces responded with 100 waves of retaliatory operations under Operation True Promise 4, firing hundreds of ballistic and hypersonic missiles, as well as drones, against American military bases across West Asia and Israeli positions throughout the occupied territories.In mid-July, Tehran and Washington signed a Pakistan-brokered Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), which calls for a permanent end to hostilities across all fronts and includes a commitment from both sides to hold further negotiations on a final accord in the next 60 days.Although, the United States resumed military raids against Iran after abandoning the Pakistan-brokered Islamabad Memorandum of Understanding. American forces carried out nightly raids, targeting civilian infrastructure, including telecommunications facilities, bridges and water desalination plants.Iran responded with waves of drone and missile attacks against US military installations across the region.#Iran#US
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