Expert: U.S. ‘errors’ in Iran war could be a calculated move

MINSK, 10 April (BelTA) – The United States may have calculated the likely consequences of an attack on Iran, including a blockade of the Strait of Hormuz, and used this to its advantage, national security expert Aleksandr Tishchenko said in a new episode of the V Teme [On Point] project on BelTA’s YouTube channel.

Speaking about the U.S. and Israeli attack on Iran, Aleksandr Tishchenko noted that the likely consequences of this war could have been calculated in Washington. “More and more often, I find myself asking: how could people who think in terms of entire countries and continents get Iran’s resources and capabilities so wrong? Jimmy Carter made a similar error in 1979, and it cost him his political life. Now it appears history has repeated itself. Maybe it wasn’t a miscalculation – maybe it was calculated?” he noted.

The expert pointed to the fact that Washington did not lose much from the blockade of the Strait of Hormuz. Moreover, in his view, Donald Trump benefits from the blockade of this transport artery, as it leads to rising energy prices for European Union countries, which are competitors to the USA. Furthermore, the United States managed to profit from arms sales to Gulf countries, whose territory came under Iranian attack in response to U.S. and Israeli strikes.

“Iran has begun striking enterprises in those countries that supported the U.S. and Israeli attacks. This region now faces a major developmental standstill,” Aleksandr Tishchenko emphasized. “The Americans have now redirected all the supplies that were planned for Ukraine to the Gulf countries.”