Why did the president of Iran suddenly apologise to the Gulf nations?

What about the Saudi “secret” attempt to end the aggression, and what are its chances of success? And who is working to stifle it early?

The American-Israeli aggression against Iran enters its second week today, without achieving any of its goals, chief among them the overthrow of the regime and its replacement with a more loyal one, or the surrender of the current regime led by a temporary tripartite leadership following the martyrdom of Imam Sayyid Ali Khamenei and the raising of the white flag of surrender, accepting the American-Israeli conditions in full without any concessions.

The failure to meet these goals, along with the increasing losses for the U.S. and Israel in military, political, and economic terms, and the rising belief that this conflict will drag on, become a war of attrition, and spread regionally with the involvement of resistance groups, has led those involved in the war to look for diplomatic ways to end it while reducing human and material losses.

Bloomberg, a global economic media institution close to Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, Saudi Arabia’s de facto ruler, revealed today in its report that Saudi Arabia is currently holding “secret” talks with Iran in an attempt to contain the war via a diplomatic channel supported and participated in by several Middle Eastern and European countries, including Egypt, Turkey, and France.

This decision comes after Iran bombed important targets in neighbouring Gulf countries with missiles and drones, as well as American bases, the most prominent of which were Saudi Arabia, Qatar, the UAE, Kuwait, and Bahrain.

The new temporary Iranian officials welcomed this action, as seen by Iranian President Masoud Bezhashkian’s unexpected apologies to neighbouring Gulf countries for the attacks unleashed against them in the early days of the aggression. The president stated in words broadcast on public television that the American-Israeli conflict was imposed on Iran. He confirmed that the interim Iranian leadership council had instructed that no attacks would be launched unless they were initiated again from American bases in these countries, emphasising the absence of hostility toward the region’s countries or opposition to Iran’s right to self-defence and territorial unity.

If Saudi Arabia formally announces its plan, the likelihood of success appears high for several reasons, which we summarise in the following points:

• First: The Gulf countries, led by the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, have come to a firm conviction that America has failed to protect the Gulf states from Iranian attacks and that the presence of American bases has become a danger to their security and stability. America is no longer a reliable ally in times of crisis.

• Secondly, the Gulf countries have lost their most significant achievements due to this American-Israeli war, the most notable being security, stability, and economic prosperity. They are currently facing financial issues and infrastructure devastation. Drones targeted Saudi Arabia’s largest oil refinery and Qatar’s largest gas production and liquefaction complex. There was a temporary halt in the export of 25 million barrels of oil and one-fifth of global gas output via the Strait of Hormuz, depriving them of their sole source of income. The American president’s carelessness and incompetence, as well as his compliance with Israeli demands, caused all these disasters.

• Third, the continuation of the war may cause chaos in Iran, famines, and security collapse, potentially resulting in massive human migrations to the western coast of the Gulf, specifically Bahrain, the UAE, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and Kuwait, which are considered the closest to Iran, in a repeat of Turkey’s role as a haven for Syrian migrants.

• Fourth: A significant division in the Western camp, which the Gulf states relied on as a safety valve, has occurred, as no European country has officially and seriously declared its support for this American-Israeli war, unlike what happened with Iraq after it invaded Kuwait, where a military coalition of 36 countries was formed, including Arab countries such as Egypt and Syria, which sent forces as part of this coalition, and the same thing was repeated in Afghanistan.

The greatest threat to the Saudi mediation initiative, supported by Egypt, Turkey, and France, if it were to launch, may come from the Israeli occupying state, which wants to continue this war and deepen American involvement in it, without succeeding in achieving its goals, which are the defeat and dismantling of Iran, changing its revolutionary Islamic regime, aborting its nuclear programme, and its missile military industries, especially advanced drones, and

Iran has begun to feel the first signs of victory after overcoming the dangers of the first week and thwarting the initial dual aggression, deepening the roots of the Islamic revolutionary ruling system in the fertile and nurturing Iranian soil, contrary to all naive and arrogant American and Israeli expectations and plans.

We’ve said it before, and we’ll say it again: Trump will not replace the Iranian regime or appoint a new Supreme Leader. On the contrary, what will happen is that Iran, whether under its temporary or permanent leadership, will bring down Trump, expel him from the White House, shatter the false American myth, and choose the next American president.

Why did the president of Iran suddenly apologise to the Gulf nations?