Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi spoke from Tehran in an exclusive interview with “NBC Nightly News” anchor Tom Llamas.
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said Thursday that his country is ready for a ground invasion by American troops as the war launched by the United States and Israel has quickly spread across the region. He also refused any negotiations with the U.S. and said that Iran had not asked for a ceasefire.
His comments came after the U.S. and Israeli militaries began a sweeping attack on Iran on Saturday, which decimated its military defenses and killed its top authority, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
The war lasted nearly a decade. Come on bro.
Oh so they were doing great up until a real military joined? Not exactly high praise.
Toppling Saddams government is the war OP is talking about which went by very fast. The insurgency that came after (what you are talking about) because Bush’s admin mismanaged the whole thing by disbanding all government employees and the Iraqi army. Which was a bad idea because occupying a country with an incredibly high gun ownership rate and a bunch of unemployed soldiers with nothing else to lose was always going to be recipe for disaster. All of would not have happened if they had kept the Ba’athist government intact. It was all very dumb and stupid just like this new Iran war is.
It’s all the same war, I see no reason to separate those parts.
You could say it was that initial operation/invasion. No need to get into semantics. The original goal of the war was to topple Saddam and it succeeded at that, but failed at everything after and became a prolonged nation building war.
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