Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi spoke from Tehran in an exclusive interview with “NBC Nightly News” anchor Tom Llamas.
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said Thursday that his country is ready for a ground invasion by American troops as the war launched by the United States and Israel has quickly spread across the region. He also refused any negotiations with the U.S. and said that Iran had not asked for a ceasefire.
His comments came after the U.S. and Israeli militaries began a sweeping attack on Iran on Saturday, which decimated its military defenses and killed its top authority, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
Pretty sure the US can succeed in invading. It’s the holding on the territory that the real impossibility happens.
And that is based on what, guesswork? Or familiarity. Iran is not Iraq. The latter was a religiously divided country. This isn’t what we have here.
The US’s issue in wars has consistently been “what next?” They are good at getting troops to battlegrounds and securing battlegrounds. They are logistically superior to everyone. The problem becomes the hanging around afterward. And it’s obvious we’re headed there again, considering the administration has all but stated they don’t know what the endgame is.
Without holding it, it’s pretty hard to even define what “succeeding in invading” even means.
By that definition Napoleon and Hitler both successfully invaded Russia.
They got in there!
To be honest, I’m not even sure they could invade. Iran is a lot larger, more populated and more defensible than Iraq or Afghanistan. Saddam (with US support) found it the hard way in the 80s.
Not to mention they can easily receive materiel support from Russia. It would be a major clusterfuck for the US. I don’t think even Trump is that stupid.