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Tensions in the Middle East, Artan Hoxha: The range of Iran's ballistic missiles can reach Europe
2026-03-02 21:17:11 / BOTA
Journalist Artan Hoxha warned on Off the Record with Andrea Dangli on A2 CNN that the range of Iranian ballistic missiles could extend to Europe. Commenting on the growing tensions in the Middle East, he stressed that Iran has lost some of the regional power it once had and that the regime in Tehran is at one of its weakest moments in recent decades.
"Iran has lost the regional power it had. It no longer has that power. And with the blow it received last year and the major protests that erupted later, it seemed that the regime was in one of the weakest positions it has had in the half century that they have been leading a country as large as Iran. Under these conditions, the United States of America and Israel carried out this attack. Britain did not join this operation. But the strike was fatal, because it did not only hit the Ayatollah. It hit the core that governed that country. That country, due to the 10-year conflict it had with Iraq, had invested and had a military infrastructure, quite large, which cost the country a lot. But on the other hand, the power that that country has faced, so Iran is a regional power, not a global one. That is its power. I saw last year, too, the range of the missiles that they said could reach Europe, ballistic missiles, "but he is a regional power, he is not a global power," said Artan Hoxha on Off the Record with Andrea Dangli on A2 CNN.
On the other hand, according to him, Iran faces internal and external challenges, including tensions with Arab countries, complicated relations with Turkey and the Kurdish issue. According to Hoxha, the Kurdish population spread across Iraq, Syria, Turkey and Iran, under certain circumstances can significantly affect geopolitical balances.
"Considering that it is not a democratic country, so that it has this and that other problem, surrounded by countries with which it has occasionally had conflicts. The war with Iraq, Afghanistan that it has there has increased it. It is an open opponent of Arab countries. From time to time there have been frictions with Turkey, because Iran also has 7% of the Kurdish population and always the Kurds since it is a nation that does not have a state, distributed in three Turks, Syria, Iraq and Iran and they are ready at any moment that they are given a hope that you can create a state, they can become allies and we have seen what the Kurds did in Iraq and Syria. So the Kurds are always a nation that is a nation with over 20 million inhabitants that can react and become an ally of the Westerners if they have the opportunity to have their own state."
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