Iran’s Foreign Minister makes no secret of the fact that Iran’s strategy is chaos that will force the world to halt the war. He points out that an increasing number of Western officials want an end to the war. The same applies to the media. But in large parts of the world, the regime is not wanted. It has run its course and it would be madness to allow it to remain in place after the effort to remove it.

The threat of chaos and rising costs is soon the only thing Iran has left.

– A wave with global ripple effects has only just begun. It will strike everyone, regardless of wealth, faith or race, writes Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi in a post on X.

He believes that more countries must increase their efforts to halt the war.

– A growing number of voices, including European and American officials, are exclaiming that the war against Iran is unjust. More members of the international community should do the same, he writes further. (NTB)

These statements cast European countries in a poor light, as they have refused to assist the United States. Europeans would like to have an open Strait of Hormuz, but are not willing to put force behind the demand. Instead, they yield to Iranian demands. Trump has said that he will not forget Europe’s inaction.

The war may leave deep marks, regardless of how it ends.

On NRK, Yama Wolasmal says that the leaders in the Gulf are angry with the United States because they had believed that the United States would protect them. That is not correct. The Gulf states have always known that Iran can strike them if it wishes. It has now done so to an excessive degree, and the countries in the Gulf want the regime in Tehran removed.

If there had been the opposition to Israel and the United States that Wolasmal claims, the reactions would have been entirely different. The opposition Wolasmal describes is more likely to be found at Marienlyst and in Western editorial offices. They do not want the United States to win.

Therefore, on Tuesday they elaborated that the head of the Office for Counterterrorism, Joe Kent, stepped down and justified it with opposition to the war. He said Iran had not constituted any threat, but that Trump had yielded to Israeli pressure.

He referred to the strong Israeli lobby in the United States. This has become something of a talking point on the right in the United States. Some believe that it is a wag the dog situation, in which Netanyahu is the tail that controls the dog Trump, after a well-known film. Trump rejects the comparison. It was after following the negotiations that Trump came to the realisation that the Iranian regime would never abandon the plan to acquire nuclear weapons. He is the seventh president to say that Iran must not obtain nuclear weapons. The six preceding have said it, but not acted. Trump knew that he had a window and acted.

Europe has never been so weak. Europe and liberal media speak down their own societies.

They do not believe in victory; they are defeatists, just as Europeans were when they faced Hitler in 1940.

Americans are optimists; Europeans are pessimists. Just as then.

They had to be saved by the United States, and the same may happen this time. The difference is that a significant part of Europe does not want it. They sympathise with the Islamists. In both the United Kingdom and France, we see an alliance between Islamists and socialists. They play the same role as the communists did in the 1930s.

What they do not understand is that the world has changed and that the United States and Israel together are unbeatable, if they have support at home.

Israel killed both Ali Larijani and the head of the Basij militia on Tuesday. It was a demonstration of power that resonated across the world. Wolasmal lamented that Larijani was killed. He was a hardliner and could therefore have led the negotiations. Now something even worse may emerge.

Wolasmal is playing defence.