US Cannot Win Campaign Against Iran

Top Russian General Says U.S. Cannot Win Campaign Against Iran

Tuesday April 3, 2007
Mos News

Washington needs to think twice before launching a military campaign against Tehran as such an attack would have global implications, the RIA-Novosti quoted a senior Russian military official as saying on Tuesday.

Yury Baluyevsky, the head of the armed forces’ General Staff, said:

“Inflicting damage on Iran’s military and industrial potential might be realistic, but winning [the war] is unachievable — its reverberations would be heard across the world.”

Baluyevsky said that when making a decision on Iran, U.S. leaders should bear in mind the negative experience in other countries of the region.

“Our strategic partners have already got bogged down in Afghanistan and Iraq,” he said.

He warned that if the U.S. goes to war with Iran as well, the world may see America decline as the world’s “mightiest and most powerful state.”