Tehran, August 27: “Bushehr Nuclear Power Plant is a victory for Iran and indicates that Iranians do their best to achieve their peaceful objectives but the US and Israel are not ready to accept this achievement”, said Lt. General Hamid Gul in an interview with Iran’s Fars News Agency.
The Americans plotted with Israelis to impose sanctions on Iran to weaken its economy, but they have failed to realize that Iranians have grown immune to sanctions by adopting appropriate measures in response, said Gul.
General Gul was referring to the US-led anti-Iran sanctions passed by the UN Security Council in June and the additional unilateral sanctions imposed by US and EU in an effort to exert extra pressure on the Islamic Republic, forcing it to abandon its civilian nuclear program that has been under intense monitoring by the International Atomic Energy Agency.
Hamid Gul served as the director general of Pakistan’s ISI during 1987-89, mainly at the time when Benazir Bhutto was Prime Minister of Pakistan. He was also instrumental in channeling the anti-Soviet support for the Mujahedin in the Afghanistan War of 1979-89. He began his military career in 1958 and helped lead forces allied to the United States during the effort to end the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan.
Gul was also among those who immediately challenged the US version of the 9/11 terror events in New York and Washington and the subsequent Bush era’s so-called “War on Terror,” warning the United States was being manipulated from within and without.
——-Agencies