US, Zionist regime igniters of proxy wars in Mideast: Analyst

Press TV has conducted an interview with Seyed Mostafa Khoshcheshm, a political analyst in Tehran, to discuss the policies of the US and the crimes committed by the Israeli regime against Muslims.

What follows is a rough transcription of the interview.

Press TV: When we look at what the Leader of the Islamic Revolution said today and pointed to one, the United States and two, the Zionist regime as the crux of the problem that the Muslim world is facing in this region, I want to expand on this and look at it in general that why do you think that Washington and Tel Aviv continue to try to cause these problems in this region and why do we not see more of a reaction by Muslim countries?

Khoshcheshm: As a matter of fact, this message, which is of strategic importance, has been repeated by the Iranian Supreme Leader on several occasions especially in the last two or three years.

The strategic importance is because if you just take a look at the policy or the line of policy of the United States or the US-led West in general, you will come to realize, very easily, that after the failure of the US-led West in Iraq and Afghanistan, they have changed their strategy in the Middle East into the same good old strategy and policy of the British, that is divide and rule.

If you just look at the goals of these proxy wars, you will come to realize that they have been started by the United States and of course the Zionist regime of Israel. You can see who is benefiting from it. When you ask ISIL, Daesh, the most important terrorist group in the region, they say they do not want to go into war with Israel, but they recognize other Muslim countries as their enemies, including Iran, and even other Sunni groups, and they say that we do not want to go into war with the Israeli regime, because they are followers of a religion and that is interesting, because they are the only so-called Muslim group that have not declared war against Israel. That is number one.

Number two, if you just take a look at those who are behind these terrorists, who financed these terrorists, you will come to realize that they are in tight rivalry with other major actors in the region. There are certain Arab states in the Persian Gulf that are serving the United States’ strategy and it is no secret - until a few years ago those who believed in this broad-based strategy of the United States, that it wants to run proxy wars instead of direct confrontation with the Middle Eastern nations, they were called conspiracy theorists, but now after the confessions made by the former chief intelligence of the Pentagon, General Flynn, everybody now understands that this is the United States and Israel that are running these terrorist groups, because when you are divided like what happened in Sudan, you will have more borders, therefore you will have more border clashes, you will have more sectarian strife. You will be divided and you will not have a major power and a major say on the global scene, like when the European countries wanted to establish a bloc, the United States disagreed and opposed their plans.

This shows that the United States’ strategy, at least for the next decade and this decade, is confrontation with the Muslim countries through proxy wars. Now who is benefiting from Daesh and the al-Nusra Front: it is the Israeli regime. Who is treating the al-Nusra and Daesh or ISIL wounded terrorists in its hospitals in the occupied Golan Heights in field hospitals: it is the Israeli regime. Why should Israel treat those wounded terrorists?

Press TV: When we look at that - you have mentioned several points and of course the Leader of the Islamic Revolution had mentioned many points already - when we look at that, why do we not see a more concentrated effort by Muslim countries in reacting to that? If that is the problem, if it is the influence of hegemonic powers such as the United States and also the Zionist regime and plotting in the region, why do not we see a more unified reaction from the likes of Saudi Arabia, the likes of other Muslim countries in the region, why are they not united?

Khoshcheshm: As I mentioned earlier, this is the problem that the United States has felt and realized and found pretty well. It is very deeply rooted problem in sectarian strife, in the religious differences and they are trying to promote these religious differences.

As you can see the Iranian Leader, the late Imam Khomeini and the current Leader Ayatollah Khamenei, they have been repeatedly stressing that there is no difference between the Shias and Sunnis, but when you look at the way that Saudi Arabia is going ahead, you will see that they believe other people all throughout the Islamic sects, the extreme of these Islamic sects and faiths, they are all blasphemous people and they are not Muslims, except for the Wahhabis. That is very, very narrow and very strict understanding of Sunni Islam with very few followers.

Take a look at what is happening in OPEC. Saudi Arabia and very few countries that are its fans and followers, they are stopping other nations from earning more crude revenues, which is their right of course, through their stubborn opposition to a major policy of supply. They are oversupplying the market in order to block other nations’ path.

This is the Saudis actually. You can see their hands in Syria, in Iraq, throughout the world, especially in this region, and in Yemen you can see it obviously, in Bahrain you can see their troops, they are exercising the United States’ policy. Why? Because they are not afraid of Islam, they want to stay in power. They are dictatorial regimes and they want to keep power and rule and bully their nations and they know as soon as they stop complying with the US orders, they will be toppled and the United States will stop its support for these brutal regimes.

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