Iran’s Shoot-in-All-Directions Strategy Is ‘Backfiring’
On CNN’s “State of the Union” on Sunday, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Michael Waltz said Iran’s strategy of shooting in all directions was backfiring.
Waltz said: “The U.S. military decimated the Iranian air force, its air defense, its missile capability, its missile production capacity. It was a dominant victory, the likes of which we have not seen in modern American military history. Economically, the maximum pressure campaign that President Trump put in place in his first term and reinstated the second as the second major element, the executive order that he signed this term, their currency is collapsing, their foreign exchange reserves are completely exhausted And that’s why you saw the most recent You saw the uprising based on economic terms and then diplomatically, we just saw this week at the UN Security Council, 135 nations, Jake, it was a UN record, 135 nations sided with the Gulf Arab countries and condemned the GCC, excuse me, with the Gulf Arab countries, the GCC countries, and condemned Iran for its attacks. Atrocious attacks against civilian infrastructure, ports, airports, hotels, resorts. And as I pointed out at the Security Council, I don’t see how the regime is arguing that these are military targets, they are clearly not, and they are clearly targeting civilian infrastructure.
He added: “And I have to tell you that this fire-in-all-directions strategy that Iran is adopting is backfiring. They have never been so isolated diplomatically.”
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