Iran FM says U.S. mired in Gaza quagmire

January 2, 2024

TEHRAN- Hossein Amir Abdollahian, the Foreign Minister of Iran, has stated that U.S. lawmakers are stuck in a “quagmire” in the besieged region, making it expensive for them to escape, since they are supporting the Israeli regime in its “genocidal campaign” against the Gaza Strip.

Amir Abdollahian mentioned in a speech at the University of Tehran on Monday that the U.S. is “facing a challenge” and is searching for a “face-saving option” to exit the Gaza conflict.

“Today the politicians in the White House are facing a serious challenge. Some believe that Washington has gone too far and should not have provided full support for Israel’s genocide and crimes over the past three months in Gaza and the West Bank,” he said.

Iran’s top diplomat went on to add that “today, the fact that American politicians have made a mistake and entered a quagmire in Gaza represents a challenge in the White House,” he added. “Getting out of this quagmire will be quite costly.”

He also underlined that the Tel Aviv regime followed its dreams of “destroying Hamas” but they did not come true.

“They announced that they would disarm Hamas through military, air, ground, and sea operations, but that did not happen,” he said, adding, “They said they will continue the offensive in tunnels and hospitals’ basements in Gaza to release Israeli captives, but they suffered a defeat and could not free one captive.”

He went on to say that Israelis had “reached a dead end,” and that Americans, who had spoken of “eradicating Hamas,” are now conveying messages to Hamas and obliquely discussing captive-prisoner exchanges and ways to control post-war Gaza in foreign nations.

“It indicates that the resistance is following the right path and has snatched another major victory in the past 80 days.”

According to Amir Abdollahian, Israel suffered a “political and intelligence defeat” on October 7 when it started the cross-border Operation Al-Aqsa Strom. Since then, the Israeli regime has suffered a “military and psychological” defeat as a result of Hamas’ 80 days of resistance and retaliation to Israel’s genocide, with the U.S. assistance.

He issued a dire warning, saying that Israel’s allies had two choices: either carry on with the war, get farther into the maze, and suffer a “embarrassing defeat,” or accept a “political solution” by meeting the demands of the resistance front. 

“The first option is the continuation of Israeli war on Gaza, but the continuation of war means the continuation of massacre and the continuation of a humiliating defeat for Israel and the U.S.,” he added.

As people around the world enjoyed spectacular fireworks displays that lit up the skyline of major cities to welcome 2024, the Israeli regime pushed ahead with its campaign of targeting Palestinian civilians at a hugely indiscriminate rate.

The Israeli military's war crimes against Palestinian civilians were firmly put at the back of the minds of countries across the globe, who went ahead with their celebrations to mark the beginning of 2024.

This is while in Gaza, where there is no skyline and buildings reduced to rubble by the Israeli army, people were struggling to pull women and children out of residential buildings that the regime's military had bombed.

This has set the tone of 2024 for Gaza, which finds itself isolated from the world.

Many of the regime's allies, in particular the United States and others, have greenlighted the occupation regime to continue its massacres against women and children in the year 2024 by attacking them at shelters.

As the world focused on celebrating, the Israeli occupation’s army waged fresh ground offensives in several areas in the Gaza Strip.

Courtesy of Tehran Times