MKO used by US to undermine Iran’s power: Pundit

Press TV has conducted an interview with Jamal Wakim, from the Lebanese International University, about the Islamic Republic of Iran marking the anniversary of the assassination of former President Mohammad Ali Rajaei and former Prime Minister Mohammad Javad Bahonar, who lost their lives in a bombing in the capital, Tehran, 35 years ago.

Here is a rough transcription of the interview:

Press TV: Talk to us about this day, surely it is a milestone in Iran being a victim of terror attacks which even further justifies Iran’s push to want to fight and battle terror in the region?

Wakim: Well I believe that Iran was targeted by terrorist attacks since the onset and the establishment of the Islamic Republic. The MKO is known for its attack on Iranian officials and several attacks in Iran or against Iranian territories from its base in Iraq.

After the invasion of Iraq by the United States, the United States imposed a ban on weapons except for the case of the MKO because they had plans to use them as a tool to undermine the Islamic Republic on one hand and at the same time to try to forge alliance with anti-Iranian regime groups in order to topple the regime.

That is why for example Paris hosted the latest convention of the group that was attended by Turki al-Faisal who was not an ordinary Saudi official, he was the head of the Saudi intelligence and this proves the point that terrorism was a tool in the hands of Saudi Arabia, the United States and Western powers in order to undermine Iran’s hegemony or sovereignty.

Press TV: How do you see this support that certain countries for example the United States and France are giving to this terror group, the MKO?

Wakim: Well I believe that this is part of their policy to attempt either to contain Iran, the Islamic regime in Iran or to topple it in case it does not comply with Western conditions because there is a grand strategy led mainly by the United States but also followed by Western Europe which aims at containing a rising Eurasia that consists mainly of China, Russia and Iran and there were a lot of attempts by blockade at one point and when the blockade did not work or did not prove efficient, there were attempts to try to appeal to certain interests of certain groups in Iran by signing this nuclear agreement so that some groups would be encouraged to forge relations with the West and try to distance Iran from China and from Russia.

This is part of a global or grand strategy led by the United States to block China and Russia from having access to the warm waters, to the Indian Ocean, to the East Mediterranean and to the Pacific especially that Iran became a bridgehead and a link between East Asia and the East Mediterranean and its geopolitical position is giving it high importance especially with regards to Russian and Chinese attempts to ward off American threats against them.

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