Launching a military operation in Iran would be a wrong decision by Trump: Blinken

BanglaPress Desk: Former US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has termed a potential US military operation against Iran a "wrong decision." He noted that every previous US administration had considered military action against Iran only as a last resort—a path President Donald Trump chose to take, which Blinken believes was a mistake.

These remarks by Blinken appeared in a video released by Iran’s Fars News Agency. During a panel discussion, he stated that he considers President Trump’s decision to pursue military action to be a misguided one.

Blinken explained that all prior US administrations had concluded that military intervention should be the absolute last resort. While such an operation might temporarily delay Iran’s nuclear program for a few years, it would not bring it to a permanent halt.

He added, "Such an attack might have set Iran’s program back, but only for a few years at most. Afterward, the program would likely have been moved even deeper underground, and they would have resumed operations on a larger scale."

In Blinken’s view, a military operation would not have succeeded in completely dismantling Iran’s nuclear program; instead, it would have provided an opportunity for the program to be relocated to even more clandestine and secure facilities. Source: The Dawn