Powell Aid: Only Iran can calm the region

Rehmat

Posted on July 6, 2015 

Colonel (ret) Lawrence Wilkerson, the former Chief-of-Staff for former US Secretary of State, Gen. Colin Powell in a recent interview with Iran’s daily Tehran Times claimed that the US policy towards the Islamic Republic and its regional allies, particularly Syria has been against America’s national interests in the region. He asserted that a more economically successful Iran can keep the volatile Middle East region QUIET and PROSPEROUS.

“I see Iran as a more stable, mature, increasingly successful, economically successful power, and if she become more successful economically, financially, regionally, and so forth, I think she will become more mature power, able to handle things like keeping the region quiet, and keeping the region prosperous,” Wilkerson said.

Wilkerson who had worked with Saudi Arabian military leaders, says that Saudi army can attack defenseless neighbors like Bahrain or Yemen – but even though it has the money to bribe foreign governments, it’s no match to Iranian military. Riyadh has always depended on the US and UK to defend its monarchy.

Wilkerson said that AKP’s setback in the recent election is a good sign for region. “I’m glad to see Erdogan lost so significantly his (AKP) majority in the Turkish parliament, because Erdogan was becoming a tyrant, a dictator, and he needed to be trimmed; he needed to be setback. Without Turkey and without Iran, and without them acting maturely, wisely and basically democratically, there is not ever going to be any peace in that region,” he said.
Wilkerson is also of the opinion that Barack Obama should apply his muscle against Israel to resolve Palestinian issue instead of bullying Iran.

Wilkerson has repeatedly said that Washington’s foreign policy is run by pro-Israel lobby groups – and Netanyahu is behind the BOMB, BOMB, Bomb Iran scare. Listen to Wilkerson below.

American Jewish professor Flynt Leverett (Pennsylvania State University) and former Fellow at the New American Foundation, a Jewish advocacy group headed by billionaire Eric Schmidt, CEO Google, said on June 9, 2015: “Today, neither Israel nor Saudi Arabia truly represents most of those it governs. Neither can endorse more participatory politics in the region; neither can endorse proliferation of regional states genuinely committed to foreign policy independence. This also mean that neither can exercise passive political influence to facilitate conflict resolution in contested regional arenas; on their own, Israel and Saudi Arabia can only make things worse.”

If one study Middle Eastern history from some objective source, he will find out that it was not Iran but the Western colonial powers which created the currentturmoil in the region by dividing Arab countries into defenseless and failed entities on ethnic, tribal and religion basis. Iran has been victim of the US, Britain and Israeli aggression even before the 1979 Islamic Revolution. The situation became worse after the Islamists took power in Tehran.

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