Independent journalist Glenn Greenwald stated Monday that the United States has not achieved any of its goals in its war with Iran.
“The Iranian regime is still very much in control of this country,” Greenwald said. “There has been no popular uprising of any kind, and public opinion has hardened more against the United States than ever before — especially since the first thing we did on the first day of the war was blow up an elementary school filled with 170 Iranian schoolgirls, a group we were supposedly there to liberate.”
Greenwald noted that the war has been unpopular with American citizens from the start and Iran has effectively countered U.S. attacks. “Every American military base in that region has been hit and hit very hard,” Greenwald said. “They obliterated the CIA base in Saudi Arabia and have completely destroyed American embassies and military bases in Iraq and Bahrain.”
The journalist added that the war is more dangerous to Americans than the Iranian regime ever was. “You know how many attacks we’ve had on American soil by Iranian terrorists or Shia terrorists over the last 30 years? Zero,” Greenwald said. “There have been huge numbers of attacks originating from countries we support, such as Saudi Arabia.”
Greenwald argued that President Donald Trump promised to avoid wars in the Middle East. “He said when he started this conflict it would be at most six weeks,” Greenwald said. “We are nowhere near finished with this war — the Strait of Hormuz is closed and the regime remains very much in place.”
The White House claimed last June that Iran’s nuclear program was obliterated. “And now, eight months later, we’re supposed to believe that we have to start this gigantic new war over a nuclear program that President Trump himself said was totally and completely obliterated,” Greenwald said. “This is exactly the kind of war Trump promised he would not get into.”
Greenwald also cited former national intelligence director Tulsi Gabbard, who last year under oath stated that the Iranian government has never made a decision to pursue nuclear weapons. “We’ve been hearing for 20 years that Iran is like 10 seconds away from getting the nuclear bomb,” Greenwald continued. “And it never happens — it’s just as if Saddam had weapons of mass destruction. This is war propaganda with no evidence.”
Greenwald concluded that Israel is “infinitely more dangerous” than Iran. “Look at how many countries they’ve attacked in the last three years,” Greenwald said. “They have stolen land from Syria and Lebanon. They vaporize people in Gaza. Israel is infinitely more dangerous — they are constantly attacked for existing.”
