Traian Băsescu: "The war with Iran can only be won if a million American soldiers land on Iranian territory, and it is not known how many of them will return."

The former president of Romania, Traian Băsescu, stated that a war with Iran cannot be won solely through bombings or threats, but would require a massive ground intervention, which involves considerable risks for the United States. Băsescu emphasized that the threats from President Donald Trump do not scare anyone and that an effective military action in Iran would require a significant commitment of troops on the ground.

He highlighted the complexity of the situation and the challenges that such a conflict would bring, suggesting that the current strategy based on pressure and bombings is not sufficient to achieve lasting results. This analysis comes in a tense international context, where relations between the United States and Iran are extremely fragile.

"The war with Iran can only be won if a million American soldiers land on Iranian territory, and it is unknown how many of them will return, because Iran is a large country. It is a country with 90 million inhabitants. It’s not Venezuela, it’s not some small country I don’t know. And it’s a country that has the awareness of its existence, the Iranian people have the awareness of their existence and history. For 2500 years it has not been a country formed as a result of arrangements or international agreements. It is a country that has always been there. It is a former great empire, Persian, an empire that dominated the world and left the world. And culture and many other things. Unfortunately, the nation has been... prostituted, by the ayatollah, it is religiously prostituted. And it has become a nation... that is unadapted to today, to the evolutions of society. Many of them are fanatized." said Traian Băsescu on TVR INFO.