Omani foreign minister: ‘America has lost control of its own foreign policy'

Oman’s foreign minister, Badr Albusaidi, said in an op-ed to The Economist that “America has lost control of its own foreign policy,” and Washington’s allies should help extricate it “from this unwanted entanglement”.

"This is not America's war," Albusaidi, who mediated the most recent indirect nuclear negotiations between the US and Tehran, wrote. He said, twice in nine months, the countries have been on the verge of a real deal, but Washington had made its "greatest miscalculation" by allowing itself to be drawn into the conflict.

“It was a shock but not a surprise when on February 28th – just a few hours after the latest and most substantive talks – Israel and America again launched an unlawful military strike against the peace that had briefly appeared really possible," Albusaidi said.

Iran’s retaliation against what it claims are American targets on its neighbours was an “inevitable, if deeply regrettable and completely unacceptable, result."