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US seeks to cause difficulties for Iran: Pundit

Friday, 25 March 2016 3:45 PM [ Last Update: Friday, 25 March 2016 3:43 PM ]

US Attorney General Loretta Lynch (C) speaks during a press conference at the Department of Justice on March 24, 2016 in Washington, DC. (AFP photo)

Press TV has interviewed Foad Izadi, a professor at the University of Tehran, about the US government charging several Iranian hackers with coordinating a campaign of cyber attacks on dozens of American banks and a dam in New York State from 2011 to 2013.

The following is a rough transcription of the interview.

Press TV: The first question here of course is about whether it truly is about this hacking or is this basically the US trying to put Iran in a tough position because of its ballistic missile program and those attacks have not worked?

Izadi: Well I think it is generally because the US wants to put Iran in a tough position and they have to find different excuses. One is the ballistic missile program which is a defensive conventional military capability that most countries have. The hacking accusation is another example of that. We have Iranian airlines, civilian airlines under sanctions with bogus excuses.

So what is happening is that in the United States we have some people in the US Congress that are totally against Iran, they are looking to put pressure on Iran through different legislations and then we have some people in the US Executive Branch that more or less want to do the same thing.

The general consensus in the United States is that if Iran gets sanctions relief, then that is not good for US foreign policy and different segments of the US government are trying their best to cause difficulties for Iran.

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