{"id":31052,"date":"2026-07-16T14:54:43","date_gmt":"2026-07-16T14:54:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/?p=31052"},"modified":"2026-07-16T14:54:43","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T14:54:43","slug":"boroujerdi-if-the-war-escalates-to-a-full-scale-conflict-the-united-states-will-pay-a-higher-price","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/boroujerdi-if-the-war-escalates-to-a-full-scale-conflict-the-united-states-will-pay-a-higher-price\/","title":{"rendered":"Boroujerdi: If the War Escalates to a Full-Scale Conflict, the United States Will Pay a Higher Price"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Boroujerdi: If the War Escalates to a Full-Scale Conflict, the United States Will Pay a Higher Price<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>July 16, 2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Alaeddin Boroujerdi, a member of the Iranian Parliament&#8217;s National Security and Foreign Policy Committee, stated that the United States would incur a much heavier cost if the conflict escalates into a full-scale war.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Speaking on Thursday, July 16, 2026, Boroujerdi stressed that <strong>&#8220;the Iranian Armed Forces have full control over the Strait of Hormuz.&#8221;<\/strong> He called on U.S. President Donald Trump to abandon what he described as his &#8220;false assumptions,&#8221; asserting that <strong>&#8220;the situation in the Strait of Hormuz will never return to what it was before the 40-day war.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Boroujerdi added that <strong>the coordination between military operations and diplomacy has shifted the balance in Iran&#8217;s favor<\/strong>, describing the consolidation of the Islamic Republic of Iran&#8217;s sovereignty over the Strait of Hormuz as one of the key achievements of both the battlefield and diplomatic efforts.<\/p>\n<p>He further explained that <strong>the primary objective of negotiations and diplomacy, alongside the operational activities of the armed forces, is to safeguard the interests of the Islamic Republic of Iran<\/strong>, describing this approach as both rational and principled.<\/p>\n<p>Concluding his remarks, Boroujerdi said: <strong>&#8220;As long as Trump remains President of the United States, any scenario is possible because of his unpredictable behavior. However, if the war escalates into a full-scale conflict, the Americans will pay a far greater price, both now and in the future.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Boroujerdi: If the War Escalates to a Full-Scale Conflict, the United States Will Pay a Higher Price July 16, 2026 Alaeddin Boroujerdi, a member of the Iranian Parliament&#8217;s National Security and Foreign Policy Committee, stated that the United States would incur a much heavier cost if the conflict escalates into a full-scale war. Speaking on &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":31053,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":4,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-news-and-analysis--"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31052","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31052"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31052\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31054,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31052\/revisions\/31054"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}