If the problems in the Middle East could be solved by unilateral military actions, there would not have been decades of chaos in the region. That the Middle East is always trapped in a vicious circle of violence is inseparable from the United States’ obsession with leveraging its military advantages to bring its desired “changes” to the region.

Whether it is the Iran nuclear issue, as is the case now, or the previous Iraq War, the Syrian civil war or the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, whenever the international community and regional countries have made progress toward resolving the disputes through political means, the US, along with its regional allies and proxies, acts to change the rules of the game in a might-makes-right direction.

For example, there is a strong international consensus that the Iran nuclear issue should be settled by political means, and intensive diplomatic endeavors have been made in that regard — seemingly supported by the US — that appeared to be bearing fruit until the US pounded through them with........

© The Frontier Post (Editorial)