“US intelligence, IAEA inspectors have confirmed that Iran’s nuclear program is perfectly legitimate; there is nothing illegal about it,” writer and radio host Stephen Lendman told Press TV.
The program is “used as cover; they can have repeated talks, negotiations, they’ll get nowhere not because the other European countries don’t want them to resolve things, it’s because Washington is the roadblock but whether there will be a war or whether it’s coming imminently, I don’t know,” he added.
Iran and the P5+1 comprising Britain, China, France, Russia and the US plus Germany have held several rounds of negotiations.
The latest meetings were held in the Russian capital, Moscow, in June. The Moscow meetings came after three sessions of talks in Baghdad in May and an earlier round of negotiations in the Turkish city of Istanbul in mid-April.
Lendman also said, “There is no question that America has a long-standing policy to remove all independent regimes. The so-called Iranian nuclear threat is a red herring.”
He also downplayed the possibility of a military attack against Iran before the US presidential election in November.
The analyst said US President Barack Obama “will delay whatever plans may come until after the election.”
“He [Obama] can win it, he can lose it. If he loses it, it’s somebody else’s problem but I very, very much doubt that he’ll start a war before the election and I don’t see Israel doing anything without a green light from Washington. I don’t think that green light is going to come in the next few months,” Lendman said.
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