The Speaker of the Iranian Parliament, Mohamad Baqer Qalibaf, warned this Monday of a “dark era” for the United States in the event that the White House continues placing Israel at the center of its strategy, for which it holds Israel responsible for trying to push the northern country into a new conflict in the Middle East.
“Unless Washington abandons the ‘Israel first’ mindset, the United States and its allies are heading directly toward a dark era,” he said in a brief message published on his social networks, in which he has criticized the current policy of the U.S. Administration.
The same, also head of Iran’s negotiating delegation, has insisted that “the Israelis are doing everything they can to drag the United States into an endless war with Iran,” a dynamic that, he warned, constitutes “a predicament from which no president, whether now or in the future, whether Republican or Democrat, could escape.”
Meanwhile, President Donald Trump has recently acknowledged that social discontent over the military intervention in Iran—launched alongside Israel on February 28—together with the rising cost of fuel and the difficulties of the domestic economy, led to the defeat of the Republican Party in the ‘midterms’ held last Tuesday.