Israeli lobby behind US anti-Iran policies: Pundit
Press TV has conducted an interview with former US marine Ken O'Keefe in London, and journalist and Philippe Assouline, a Middle East expert from Los Angeles, to discuss the approval of a bill by the US House of Representatives that would limit Washington’s ability to lift anti-Iran bans as agreed in last July’s nuclear agreement.
O’Keefe said the West needs the narrative against Iran’s nuclear program in order to advance the Israeli agenda in the Middle East, adding that the warmongering regime in Tel Aviv has been fueling tensions in the region.
The Israeli lobby is “part and parcel of the ruling class of America,” said the analyst, stressing that Washington’s policies do not reflect the nation’s interests and serve Israeli goals in Iraq, Syria, Libya, Afghanistan and elsewhere.
He rejected as baseless the claims that Iran is after developing nuclear weapons and said there is no evidence that there is a military diversion in Tehran’s nuclear program.
The US officials “carry on the charade that Iran is trying to produce nuclear weapons, when in fact its Leadership at the top level has said very clearly that the production and the use of atomic weapons would not be in line with the good God-fearing religious spiritual values,” O’Keefe said.
He was referring to a fatwa by Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei, which forbids the development and use of nuclear arms.
O’Keefe said the history of Iran over the past centuries shows it has been “one of the most peaceful nations on the planet,” adding that American officials are being “ordered to scuttle” the nuclear agreement reached between Iran and the P5+1 group – Russia, China, France, Britain, the US and Germany – last July.
Assouline, for his part, believes although Israel, along with some of its regional allies, has opposed the agreement on Tehran’s nuclear program, they have failed to push their anti-Iran agenda forward.
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