Washington, January 15: Former US Assistant Secretary of the Treasury has said that a military strike against Iran is the next war on the US government’s agenda politics.
Paul Craig Roberts wrote in an article that the United States is preparing to attack Iran as it has deployed missiles directed at Iran in Oman and the UAE, Infowars.com reported.
He also brought several other instances to prove his assumption.
“Washington has beefed up Saudi Arabia’s jet fighter force. Most recently, Washington has deployed 9,000 US troops to Israel to participate in “war games” designed to test the US/Israeli air defense system,” Roberts said.
“As Iran represents no threat unless attacked, Washington’s war preparations signal Washington’s intention to attack Iran,” he added.
The author noted that another signal that the US administration has a new war on its agenda is the raised level of “Washington’s rhetoric and demonization of Iran.”
Roberts called US allegation that Iran is seeking nuclear weapons as “the same level of lie as Washington’s claim that Saddam Hussein in Iraq had weapons of mass destruction.”
The analyst also warned about the consequences of a nuclear attack on Iran.
“A nuclear attack on Iran would alert both China and Russia that they could suffer the same fate. The consequence would be that the world would face a higher risk of nuclear Armageddon than existed in the mutually assured destruction of the US-Soviet standoff,” Roberts said.
The war threats come after four rounds of US-backed sanctions imposed by the UN and unilateral sanctions by certain US allies failed to stop Iran’s peaceful nuclear program.
Anti-Iran measures provoked by the US and Israel are aimed to deny Iran’s right of having peaceful nuclear technology.
As a signatory to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, Iran has the legal right to develop nuclear capability for civilian purposes.
——Agencies