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March 25th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda In a new report on Sunday, Reuters highlighted the fact that economic embargoes cannot halt Tehran’s nuclear energy program and argued that the sanctions have only “triggered an oil price spike that could trigger a global recession.”
The US, Israel and some of their allies accuse Tehran of pursuing military objectives in its nuclear energy program.
The US and the EU have used the pretext to impose international and unilateral sanctions against Iran.
Iran refutes the allegations, arguing that as a committed signatory to the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and member of International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), it has the right to use nuclear technology for peaceful use.
Press TV has conducted an interview with Brent Budowsky, a columnist with The Hill newspaper, to share his opinion on this issue.
The following is a transcript of the interview:
Press TV: The draconian sanctions are trying to punish a country for pursuing what according to international law is its right, the pursuit of a peaceful nuclear energy program and as professor Shakespeare [the other guest of the program] has just said it seems the intelligence agencies or different governments, even in the United States and the UK, they too, different agencies know or are saying that Iran is not trying to pursue getting a nuclear weapon.
So how does the United States first of all get the Europeans to go along with them even though that several of these countries depend on Iranian oil and they have very fragile economies at this time?
Budowsky: Well first of all, to some degree they are legitimate security concerns that the Europeans share with the United States. To some degree it is political that the United States is in an election year, many of the European countries are in election years or approaching them as well.
Now let me try to put this as positively as I can and you can assume I do not agree with everything that professor Shakespeare said.
What we can do and should do-we meaning everyone- is a political and diplomatic solution that the government of Iran, the government of the United States, the government of Europe and the [cabinet] of Israel can all agree on that would end this issue and this conflict once and for all and all of the sanctions once and for all and not just oil but all of the sanctions and end up in a better situation that would be more advantageous to every single country that is affected by this across the board and in every way economically.
That should be a doable proposition. I mean one thing that professor Shakespeare said that I agree with is the government of Iran is saying and we should try to make this diplomatic that they are not going to do nuclear weapons.
Now there would be a way to get a diplomatic and political agreement between the United States, Europe, Iran, everyone else that would make that ratified and eliminate all the sanctions, eliminate all of the conflict, settle the issue once in and for all which would not only help on the oil prices for the Western world and for Europe, but it would lead to tremendous benefits across the Middle East including Iran but other countries as well.
There is no reason we cannot reach a diplomatic solution to these problems because what the Iranian government says they will do is what the other governments say they want to do and finally there is a lot of descent in Israel I would add about many of the policies done by the current [cabinet].
And so war is not inevitable, end of sanctions is not inevitable and diplomatic solutions are possible, they are not easy but that is what I think we should all aspire to.
Press TV: What about that Mr. Budowsky, how likely is that to happen, those 12 countries that professor Shakespeare has mentioned? What happens if they actually do bond together and finally say to Washington that enough is enough?
How likely is that to happen? Is the United States losing some of its influence over these countries?
Budowsky: No I do not think so. There are tensions between those countries or issues as well, as tensions between those countries and the United States and I am referring to Europe, I am referring to China, I am referring to Russia and obviously there are financial problems in Europe that have nothing to do with this that are serious. Some of which I am opposed, some of the austerities that they are imposing on Greece and Spain I think it is a terrible mistake and France does have a big election coming up soon.
But let me get back to what I consider the most important point. I am not here today to make an ideological argument or to condemn people or to support people, I am here try to help solve problems.
I will tell you that I worked for the congressional leadership in the United States for the Democrats beginning when Ronald Reagan was president and we were having secret briefings about the end of the world on nuclear war.
I sat through secret briefings about how I would die, how the United States will be destroyed, how Russia will be destroyed, how the world will be destroyed, how life on earth would end.
I heard and was part of those secret briefings and I was involved in the policies that changed that and that saved the world with a lot of different countries.
So when I see the differences between the United States and Iran and Israel I can go back, we could do a five hour show just about the wars and the conflicts and the dangers that I experienced and many of our audience experienced in every continent in the world with the whole idea of life on earth could have ended.
So these are problems that can be solved and I repeat the main point quickly. The government of Iran has a right to have civilian nuclear energy. There is no question about that. They have the right; everyone agrees to have civilian nuclear energy. The government of Iran says that they do not want nuclear weapons.
There is no reason that reasonable people in all of these countries cannot come up with a diplomatic solution as the United States did with China, with Russia, to save the world from end of the world through nuclear weapons that I was in the middle of it and it was a long forty year fight before I was born that ended while I was here that we have to find ways to come up with the solution to these problems.
Press TV: Mr. Budowsky, let me just jump in here, I understand what you are saying as for it is saving the world but the reality about the nuclear weapons is that there are still a lot of nuclear weapons in the hand of the United States and some of its allies, so the danger for the rest of the world is definitely still there.
But the question is basically does a country that possess so many nuclear weapons even has the right to try to put this much pressure on a country that says it is not pursuing nuclear weapons?
Budowsky: Well by the way regarding the weapons in the United States I would like to eliminate any of them as well by the way, I mean you are right about that.
I want to solve the problems and make life better for the people of the United States, Iran, Europe, everywhere else, to the degree that all of it is a legitimate security threat or they believe it is –the United States, Europe, even Israel– to the degree they believe that there would be a diplomatic solution to eliminate whatever threat does or may exist from the point of view of Iran and the point of view of other countries, there ought to be a way where they can do what they say they are going to do and in return the United States and Europe and everyone else will lift the sanctions and lift the life for everyone in all of those countries.
I am a problem solver and I have solved and been involved in much more dangerous problems than this like the end of the world.
And so rather than debate who is right and who is wrong, the government of Iran says it wants to do what the Europeans and the United States say they are asking them to do.
If the United States and Russia can reach agreements, the Soviet Union, surely reasonable and intelligent people in all of these countries can reach an agreement over this issue.
AHK/JR
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