TEHRAN (FNA)- Dr. Bischara Ali Egal, political commentator, says targeting the US UAV showed Iran is ready to confront any threats to its independence, sovereignty and territorial integrity.
Speaking with FNA in an exclusive interview, Dr. Ali said, “Iran has shown that it is not willing to take its marching orders from Washington, which means maximum pressure from the US will not work… [Trump] has two options remaining in that case: risk it all by launching a war or make a gesture toward peace. A war would ruin not only his presidency but also his political future.”
Bischara Ali Egal is the Executive Director of the independent Non-profit, Non-governmental Research and policy think-tank The Horn of Africa Center for Strategic and International Studies (Horn CSIS) established in 2005.
Below is the full text of the interview:
Q: Why does Trump pay visit to North Korea that is armed with nuclear weapons and threatens to use them against the US, but, he does everything possible to confront Iran which has never posed a military threat to the US, and has NO nuclear weapons?
A: The Trump–Kim meetings have taken the world in political storm. Not knowing what to make of this historical and Public Relations Hoopla by the two leaders - while tensions between the nuclear armed North Korea and the United States are still high, both leaders have two different and opposite agendas of their own. For Trump it is all about his re-election, to look like a real and great statesman; for Kim, it means to reduce the Korean peninsula tensions. And so, Trump feels that North Korea -- unlike Iran -- would be an unprecedented success, a ticket into the history books, and get him a likely Nobel Peace Prize. However, Trump finds Iran different from nuclear–armed North Korea. Firstly, Trump sees that the Iran nuclear deal was Obama's alone; enough to cause Trump to walk away in an effort to make everyone understand there was a new sheriff in town. As with so many other issues from the Trans-Pacific Partnership to climate to immigration, Trump walked away from everything Obama had touched. In short, Iran was old business -- Obama's business -- and if he could not walk away from the deal immediately, Trump would lose his face in the Republican Party. Secondly, the Neocons have infested American halls of power – both houses see Iran more dangerous and threat to American strategic interests in the Middle East and beyond. The Neocons warmongers are now exceedingly in the decision making higher echelons of both the state department and white house. They are ideologically and politically set for pivoting and pushing the war agenda against Iran. This is while Trump is easily manipulated both psychologically and politically towards war with Iran.
Q: Iran downed the US ultra-high-tech drone, with only one shot. Why were there no military reactions from the US?
A: Downing of the US hi-Tech super sensitive unmanned aerial vehicle over the Strait of Hormuz was a political, military and Technological boost for Iran’s Global standing, although it heightened the already tense crisis. Iran identified the drone as an RQ-4A Global Hawk, a $220 million UAV that acts as a massive surveillance platform in the sky. For Iran, the downing of this multi-million dollar UAV was a brave decision and defining moment for the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps and its leadership that they mean what they say, and that they are prepared for an all-out regional war in order to defend their independence, sovereignty and territorial integrity. President Trump is in a bind and it is of his own making. Iran has shown that it is not willing to take its marching orders from Washington, which means” maximum pressure” from the US will not work. He has two options remaining in that case: risk it all by launching a war or make a gesture toward peace. A war would ruin not only his presidency, but also his political future.
Q: How do you view Saudi Arabia's future, based on its military spending on buying "firecrackers" from the US, especially now that the US most sophisticated weapons are proven to be dysfunctional when the case of war is with Iran?
A: Americans say that they have no permanent friends, but permanent interests and that is why they stuck with corrupt, feudalistic, Wahhabi house of terrorism and autocratic fiefdom like Saudi Arabia. The massive US sell of arms to Saudi Arabia since Trump and Obama is just a modern–day of imperialist exploitation and hatchery infatuation of backward under-developed Imperial colonies of yesteryears. The American Foreign Policy towards Saudi Arabia is basically a super-market bonanza for the American Military–Industry-Intelligence-Mercenaries Complex since the “Desert Storm” in 1990. It is a way for recycling (milking) the excess billions of Saudi petro-dollars for useless and unsophisticated shining chunks from America’s MIC thus, realizing monetary bonanza the likes of which it has never seen before in the history of the Kingdom.
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