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 Iran

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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”.

Writing in the Economist, 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 US and Israel’s bombing of Iran and the war that it has triggered across the Middle East.