RIYADH: Three months after the US and Israel launched Operation Epic Fury against Iran, the Middle East remains gripped by instability, stretching from Gaza and Lebanon to Iran and the Strait of Hormuz.
For Nomi Bar-Yaacov, the veteran human rights lawyer and international peace negotiator, the verdict on the campaign is unequivocal.
“Frankly speaking, I do think it was an epic failure and I think that there is no question about it,” she told Katie Jensen, host of the Arab News current affairs program “Frankly Speaking.”
Bar-Yaacov said the operation had left the region more dangerous and diplomacy further away than before the conflict began.
“We’re in a far worse place now than we were (before) Operation Epic Fury — that then changed names after 60 days to ‘Project Freedom,’” she said. “And now I don’t know what we’re turning into, but we are a long way away from a peaceful, sustainable resolution to the conflict.”
