US has ‘lost control of its own foreign policy’, says Oman’s foreign minister
Badr Albusaidi claims Israel convinced Donald Trump to make the ‘grave miscalculation’ of waging war on IranOman’s foreign minister has claimed the US has “lost control of its own foreign policy” and accused Israel of persuading Donald Trump’s administration to go to war with Iran – a...
<p>Badr Albusaidi claims Israel convinced Donald Trump to make the ‘grave miscalculation’ of waging war on Iran</p><p>Oman’s foreign minister has claimed the US has “lost control of its own foreign policy” and accused Israel of persuading Donald Trump’s administration to go to war with Iran – a conflict he described as a “catastrophe” and “grave miscalculation”.</p><p>Writing <a href="https://www.economist.com/by-invitation/2026/03/18/americas-friends-must-help-extricate-it-from-an-unlawful-war">in the Economist</a>, Badr Albusaidi, the Omani minister who mediated the latest nuclear talks between Iran and the US, offered an unusually damning assessment of events leading up to the <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/mar/03/what-next-for-iran-after-the-bombing-four-scenarios">US and Israel’s bombing of Iran</a> and the war that it has triggered across the Middle East.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/mar/19/us-lost-control-of-its-own-foreign-policy-oman-foreign-minister">Continue reading...</a>
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