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US seeks to infiltrate Iran despite nuclear deal: Analyst

Thursday, 31 December 2015 9:48 AM [ Last Update: Thursday, 31 December 2015 9:48 AM ]

Even though “the ink is barely dry” on the nuclear agreement, the US is moving to impose sanctions on Iran, says Glenn.

The United States has been trying to “infiltrate” Iran and undermine the country’s independence and sovereignty, even though “the ink is barely dry” on the nuclear agreement with the Islamic Republic, says an American author and political analyst.

Mark Glenn said the negotiations between Iran and the US along with five other nations forming the P5+1 group which led to an accord on Iran’s nuclear program in Vienna on July 14 were “not because the United States sees Iran as a sovereign country or because the United States sees Iran as a country to be respected.”

Whatever the United States is doing is to “warm her way into the Iranian system to infiltrate and to begin chewing away like termites at all of these successes that Iran achieved with her 1979 revolution," he added.

The Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday that the administration of US President Barack Obama is preparing fresh sanctions on international companies and individuals over suspected involvement in Iran’s missile program. The sanctions would be the first financial sanctions since Tehran agreed to the nuclear agreement.

US officials claim the new sanctions are in line with the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), the nuclear deal, and the Treasury Department can impose new sanctions on Iran over its missile development.

Tehran has defended the right to carry out missile tests for defensive purposes, saying the Iranian missiles are not designed to carry nuclear warheads.

Glenn said the latest move by the Treasury is in line with longstanding US efforts to undermine Iran.

“I don’t think that people really understand just how serious a blow this was to the United States when Iran achieved its independence in 1979. And so the United States is out to take an eraser to that year and wipe it out of the history books and she is using the bait of lifting sanctions as a means to doing it,” he said.

“It will be just one thing after another until the United States has achieved what she is out to achieve, which is to subdue Iran and to completely alter the system that has existed there since 1979,” the analyst noted.

Tehran is already disappointed by Obama’s signing of a Congress bill this month aimed at limiting travels to Iran and trade with the country.

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