Tiberio Graziani, Chairman at Vision & Global Trends. International Institute for Global Analyses in Rome, warned that “The US military operation against Iran cannot be reduced to a single goal. Rather, it is the result of the intertwining of a long-term strategy of restructuring the Near and Middle East, a current phase dominated by the centrality of energy, and increasingly explicit global competition with China. Nuclear power, military potential, and regime stability are operational variables; the real objective therefore remains Iran’s geopolitical function, namely its ability to act as an autonomous player in an international system in transition.”
Writing in Analisidifesa.it, Graziani warned that “Questioning the “true objective” of the US military operation against Iran risks being misleading if the question is posed as a choice between discrete options—regime change, destruction of military potential, demolition of nuclear facilities, or something else. In reality, the US action should be viewed within the context of a much longer historical cycle of confrontation, which in the post-Cold War period has taken on a coherent configuration, divided into successive phases that serve the same strategic plan.”