U.S., Israel wanted quick win, but they failed: Mohammad Marandi

What is the presumption of the warfare now, and however bash you measure Iran’s response?

I deliberation it’s beauteous wide that the U.S. and the Israeli authorities person failed. They were hoping for a speedy win. And we knew that this would not beryllium the case. They miscalculated large time. Even Trump admitted this erstwhile helium said helium did not expect that Iran would onslaught U.S. assets successful the Persian Gulf.

It either indicates that helium is precise ignorant oregon it indicates that the radical astir him knew, but they didn’t archer him due to the fact that they’re Israeli firsters. And for Israeli firsters, the lone happening that’s important is the Israeli regime. So we are wherever we are. Iran is striking U.S. assets crossed the Persian Gulf region. And, of course, it’s striking the Israeli authorities regularly. There are estimates astir Iranian missiles and drones and however galore of determination exist; they were, of course, wrong. Iran’s drone and rocket factories are underground. They are producing drones and missiles arsenic we speak.

The longer the warfare lasts, the worse it is going to beryllium for them. That doesn’t mean that we’re not paying a price. Just earlier we spoke, they bombed Tehran and they are taking their revenge connected mean Iranians due to the fact that they failed against the military.

Marco Rubio has listed retired 3 objectives of the war: destruct Iran’s missiles, destruct Iran’s rocket accumulation facilities, and destruct Iran’s navy. If the warfare continues, what benignant of interaction these sustained U.S.-Israeli attacks volition person connected Iran’s capabilities?

The bulk of Iran’s naval forces are successful underground bases. The speedboats, which signifier the bulk of Iran’s naval capabilities, and which occurrence missiles are each good protected, conscionable similar the underground drone and rocket bases. And Iran has not utilized them yet. The naval capabilities that tin spell retired immediately, swiftly, and onslaught targets crossed the Persian Gulf and successful the Indian Ocean, those are good hidden. Iran is playing the agelong game. We are readying a warfare that could spell into adjacent twelvemonth and aft the U.S. midterm elections. This was the Iranian readying from the beginning. And truthful neither of these 3 objectives that you mentioned person been met by immoderate means. But much importantly, determination were different objectives. They conscionable silently enactment those aside. Regime alteration and truthful connected and truthful forth. It’s each failed. All they’re doing is sidesplitting much guiltless people.

The U.S. has destroyed its brushed powerfulness representation implicit Gaza. And now, it is losing connected the battlefield. Economically, it is besides losing due to the fact that the assets that the U.S. has successful the Persian Gulf portion are enormous. They are successful the galore trillions of dollars. A azygous missile, erstwhile it strikes Dubai, the full of Dubai diminishes successful value. How bash you cipher that successful numbers? As clip goes on, the terms of lipid is going to spell up. And the satellite knows that this is not Iran’s fault. This is the responsibility of the Trump authorities and Netanyahu.

But the Iranian retaliation is besides having an interaction connected Iran’s ties with its neighbouring countries. What is your instrumentality connected that?

Well, the countries that it has an interaction connected chiefly are successful the Persian Gulf. And these are tiny Arab household dictatorships. And they are opening to recognise that U.S. bases are a liability. They’re recognising that they cannot person their barroom and devour it too. They cannot person U.S. bases successful their territory to beryllium utilized to weaponry Iran and past telephone themselves neutral. So they are being punished for their ain policies. And they volition proceed to beryllium punished. The Persian Gulf volition ne'er beryllium similar it was before. After this warfare is over, Iran volition request afloat compensation. And it volition not let these countries to ever again beryllium utilized arsenic platforms to endanger Iran.

Iran did not commencement this war. Iran did not privation this war. Iran wanted to transportation connected with its business, its economical ties, and let others to bash the same. But these regimes allowed the U.S. to conspire against Iran. They facilitated it. They gave them bases, they gave them the airspace, adjacent missiles were fired from their territory, from Kuwait, from Bahrain, from the Emirates, and astir apt from Qatar and Saudi Arabia too. So they can’t, they can’t get distant with that. This is going to beryllium a achy war. During the 12-day warfare (June 2025), they launched a blitzkrieg attack. And they were the ones who were begging for a ceasefire, arsenic we each know. And this clip around, it’s acold worse. Iran is hitting the Israeli authorities harder than before.

Do you deliberation it was a mistake that Iran agreed to a ceasefire successful June 2025?

No, backmost then, the Iranians had 2 considerations. One is that they did thatch the Israeli authorities a lesson. That’s wherefore the Israeli authorities was seeking a ceasefire. They didn’t judge the ceasefire close away. They continued hitting for 3 days roughly, and past accepted a halt successful hostilities. But the Iranians knew that yet this is going to beryllium a warfare that includes the U.S. And if that warfare had continued, the U.S. would person entered the fray. So implicit the past 8 months, they’ve been making large changes with regards to their launching capabilities, with regards to protecting their factories, their rocket and drone factories.

The Israeli authorities is not a menace to Iran. Iran tin easy decision it. For Iran, the contented is the U.S. The U.S. is the superpower. So implicit the past 8 months, Iran has been preparing itself for this war. Iran knew it was inevitable.

In Lebanon, Hezbollah is warring the Israelis. In Iraq, Iran’s allies are progressive successful the fight. But Houthis are not visible. Where are the Houthis?

Iran and its allies are controlling the gait of escalation. In Iraq, Iran’s allies tin bash overmuch much than what we’re seeing close now. Even successful Syria, Iran’s allies tin bash a batch more. There’s nary crushed for Iran to spell each retired connected time one. If Iran wanted to bash that, Iran could person destroyed each the tankers successful the Persian Gulf; it could person destroyed each the lipid and state installations, and determination would beryllium nary much lipid and state from the Persian Gulf for the adjacent fewer years, and that would destruct the planetary economy. It would alteration the lives of everyone crossed the globe. Iran doesn’t privation that. Iran wants this warfare to beryllium managed.

Look astatine the Strait of Hormuz. Iran has efficaciously unopen it. The Americans tin bash thing astir it. Iran tin spell overmuch further than that. They tin conscionable destruct the tankers that are stuck. But Iran doesn’t privation destruction. The broadside that has brought astir this situation is the U.S., the Israeli regime, and the Zionist lobby. They are the ones who are putting the Indian system astatine risk, the Chinese system astatine risk, the U.S. system astatine risk, the planetary system astatine hazard for the involvement of the Israeli regime. Because the Israeli authorities does not attraction astir immoderate entity but itself. But connected the different hand, we bash not privation the planetary system to collapse. So this escalation is managed. When the clip comes, Iran’s allies successful Yemen volition beryllium much active. Iran’s allies successful Iraq volition beryllium much active. Iran itself volition beryllium much active.

Iran has truthful acold maintained that it would not speech to the U.S. But if the warfare continues, everybody is going to suffer, economically. What’s the endgame script you person successful your mind?

Iran wants the planetary system to relation normally. This is not a warfare that we started. This is an unprovoked warfare of aggression wherever they murdered our leaders and they murdered citizens, including galore children, and they ne'er showed remorse for adjacent murdering small girls. This warfare has to extremity successful a mode Iran doesn’t consciousness threatened six months down the road. We already negotiated with the Americans twice. And arsenic we were negotiating, they carried retired an attack. They initiated war. Eight, 9 months ago, and now. So negotiating with them is useless due to the fact that they’ll accidental 1 happening and past the adjacent time they’ll bash something.

Iran knows that the U.S. is successful heavy trouble. They’re moving retired of ammunition. And the warfare is precise costly, precise costly, astatine aggregate levels. Of course. the terms of vigor is expanding crossed the world. And radical volition blasted the U.S. for this. So what Iran wants is that portion it’s putting unit connected the U.S., it wants the portion to recognise that it tin nary longer beryllium utilized arsenic a level for aggression against Iran.

It’s similar a neighbour of India giving a basal to a 3rd party; let’s accidental they springiness bases to the U.S., and the U.S. starts striking India from those bases. And past those countries oregon that state tells the Indian authorities that we’re neutral. You can’t beryllium neutral. That’s your country. Iran wants to marque definite that, from present on, these regimes tin nary longer beryllium complicit successful aggression against Iran, and that the U.S. tin nary longer beryllium successful a presumption to endanger Iran. And Iran indispensable beryllium afloat compensated, and its rights arsenic a sovereign, autarkic country, to person a peaceful atomic programme, indispensable each beryllium respected. These are the minimal demands.

There was a fatwa successful Iran issued by the erstwhile Supreme Leader against the atomic weapons. And Iran ever maintained that its atomic programme was for peaceful purposes. Iran has faced 2 attacks successful the past 8 months. Do you deliberation Iran’s atomic posture was a strategical mistake?

Before the revolution, the U.S. had taken immense amounts of wealth from Iran to make a atomic programme here. Iran paid a batch of wealth to make a atomic programme. And the Americans and the Europeans were down it, the Germans successful particular. And the French. After the revolution, Iran wanted to proceed that. We cognize from the International Atomic Energy Agency that Iran was producing a atomic weapon. They should beryllium precise thankful that Iran has this fatwa. And there’s a crushed for this fatwa. It’s an disfigured weapon. And Iran did the aforesaid erstwhile the West gave Saddam Hussein chemic weapons [during the Iran-Iraq war]. Iran’s leader, Ayatollah Khomeini, backmost then, who passed distant successful 1989, did not let the Iranians to marque their ain chemic weapons.

With regards to atomic weapons, Iran has decided not to bash truthful for motivation reasons, but besides due to the fact that if Iran produces atomic weapons and each these tiny Arab household dictatorships, which are not precise stable, who knows what’s going to hap successful the months up successful these Arab household dictatorships oregon successful the caucuses.

If you person atomic weapons, a batch of different countries privation atomic weapons too, and that is destabilising. So determination are reasons down this, but the Iranians person said that if determination is an existential menace to Iran, then, Iran’s atomic posture volition change. The U.S. is not going to triumph [this war]. This is going to beryllium a strategical decision for them. And the lone radical to blasted are the Zionists, the Israeli regime, and the U.S.

Does the fatwa inactive stand?

The fatwa is inactive there. I don’t deliberation that immoderate caller determination has been made. The Iranians person already said that the lone happening that could alteration Iran’s argumentation is an existential menace to the nation. And of course, Iran is winning this war. The Americans and Israelis are not winning, they’re losing. There’s nary uncertainty astir it. And they whitethorn spell brainsick due to the fact that they’re losing, and that’s wherefore they’re bombing people. But if determination is an existential threat, past Iran’s atomic posture would change. So for the clip being, I spot continuity with regards to Iran’s overseas policy, its interior policy, and its atomic policy.