Oman’s foreign minister has called on the US’s allies to help extricate it from an “unwanted entanglement” in Iran, arguing that Washington had ceded control of its own foreign policy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Writing in an opinion piece for The Economist, Badr Albusaidi, who mediated the most recent indirect nuclear negotiations between Washington and Tehran, said the US had made its “greatest miscalculation” by allowing itself to be drawn into the conflict at all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“This is not America’s war,” he wrote, adding there was no realistic scenario in which both Israel and the US would achieve their objectives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He warned that Israel’s goal of toppling the Iranian regime would require a prolonged ground campaign, opening “a new front in the forever wars which President Donald Trump previously vowed to end.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Calling on Washington’s friends to intervene, he said doing so required acknowledging “the extent to which America has lost control of its own foreign policy”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Albusaidi described Iran’s retaliatory strikes against Gulf countries that host US bases as an “inevitable, if deeply regrettable” response to a war explicitly “designed to terminate” it, saying it was “probably the only rational option available to the Iranian leadership.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He also pointed to the disruption of shipping through the Strait of Hormuz as a foreseeable consequence, warning that it was driving up energy prices and threatening a deep recession.<\/p>\n\n\n\n