The US State Department has contended that the diplomatic option toward Iran’s Ayatollahs – along with hundreds of billions of dollars of financial benefits and lavish diplomatic gestures – could induce the Ayatollahs to accept peaceful coexistence with their Sunni Arab neighbors, become good faith negotiators, and abandon their fanatic religious ideology, which has traumatized the region and the globe.

Moreover, the State Department suspended and softened mega-billion-dollar worth of economic sanctions, eagerly seeking another nuclear accord, refraining from the redesignation of the Houthis as a terrorist entity. Furthermore, Foggy Bottom has feebly reacted to the Houthis’ closure of the critical Europe-Asia trade route, and has responded in a frail manner to the systematic bombing of US, Saudi Arabia and UAE installations by Iran and its proxies.

However, the US diplomatic option and its mega-benefits to the Ayatollahs, have accelerated the transformation of Iran from the “American Policeman in the Gulf” to a venomous octopus, stretching its hands throughout the globe, and increasingly in the American continent, including US soil.