TEHRAN – Former US official Robert Murray, who served as the lead negotiator for the 2015 nuclear deal, has led to harsh criticism of Washington’s conflicting Iranian policies and calls it a strategic failure that catastrophically backfired military action.
Murray, who served as a US Iranian envoy under the Biden administration for more than two years, said in an interview with MSNBC on Tuesday that the Israeli administration’s strike paradoxically strengthened Iranian nationalism, but ultimately failed to achieve its intended goals.
“The Iranians have not surrendered,” Murray clearly stated, highlighting Tehran’s resilience in the face of economic sanctions and military strikes.
Malley said the strikes at US and Israeli nuclear facilities in June were counterproductive, and that it created “a greater aspirations (to advance the nuclear program) and reduced visibility” for Iran’s nuclear activity.
His assessment reflects Ayatollah Seiyed Ali Khamenei, the recent declaration of the leader of the Islamic Revolution.
The former envoy said that known nuclear sites “destroy” would ignore Iran’s ability to disperse and hide its programs and leave the West “in a situation where they don’t know what they’re doing.”
The diplomat reserved sharp criticism of Donald Trump’s volatile policies and revealed how the former president’s “mood constantly changing” and military escalation will change.
Iran claimed that Trump’s withdrawal from nuclear deals and subsequent “maximum pressure” campaign failed brilliantly as Iran responded by significantly expanding uranium enrichment.
“The theory of that incident – (the maximum pressure forces Iran to surrender) – we really need to rest,” Murray argued, pointing out that Tehran’s nuclear capabilities had expanded significantly after the sanctions were revived.
Murray characterized the strategy of Israeli regime Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as self-defeating, and observed that Israel produced contradictions with “depicting Iran as an existential threat.” Pressure, threats.
He noted that when the nuclear deal addressed Israeli concerns and forced him to invent a new objection, Netanyahu felt “captured by his own argument.”
The former negotiator highlighted Iran’s historical trauma as the key to understanding its rebellion, referring to the Iranian-Iraq war in the 1980s, when “estimated a million people” Iranian death shaped the national spirit.
The suspended envoy reserves special concerns about humanitarian impacts and points to the civilian casualties from strikes on hospitals and residential areas spurring anti-Western fury. “When you’re being bombed by other countries, you’ll become more nationalist,” he observed, predicting that the strike will plague the region for years through “unpredictable outcomes” and “pent-up humiliation.”