Col. Douglas Macgregor, advisor to the Secretary of Defence in the first Trump Administration, has said that the Iran-US war is likely to end with the US losing its prestige and leaving the Middle East. 

Col. Douglas Macgregor, who was advisor to the US Secretary of Defence in the first Trump Administration, said in a video interview to the Norwegian political scientist, Glenn Diesen, that the Iran war is going badly for the US, and if it is not  stopped quickly, the US will end up losing its prestige and quitting West Asia.  

A former US army combatant, Col. Macgregor said that the US expected Iran to capitulate quickly after its supremo Ayatollah Khamanei was killed by the Israelis. But to its dismay, Iran did not. On the contrary, it is firing missiles and sending drones in huge numbers to wreak vengeance on at least 27 US bases spread across West Asia including Israel.

He pointed out that the US defence system was deluded by decoy drones and the Israeli “Iron umbrella” had proved to be porous. He feared that the US might soon run out of missiles, having only 40,000 of them as against the Iranian stockpile of 450,000. 

The US would find it difficult to neutralise Iranian missile batteries because they are thinly spread out in Iran, a country as large as Europe. Also, it would be harder to hit them because they are mobile. Iran, on the other hand,  has struck bases which are static. 

Commenting on the decapitation of the Iranian leadership by killing Ayatollah Khamanei, Macgregor said that it was only a tactical success........

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