A US political analyst has recently called into question the logic behind Washington continuing animosity toward Iran, saying the US’ “entire policy vis-à-vis Iran is bankrupt.”
In unusual blunt statements on anti-Iran news channel Fox News, Geraldo Rivera said, “I think we have totally picked the wrong enemy in the Middle East. In my experience, and decades of war reporting, the nuisance, the evildoer in Saudi Arabia.”
“It was the Saudi Arabians with the 9/11 hijackers. They are ISIS, Al-Qaeda, Al-Shabaab. The Sunni Saudi Arabians are the real problem. The Iranians, I believe we can do business with them,” he added.
His comments come as US President Donald Trump mounts pressure on Tehran, pulling his country out of the 2015 international Iran nuclear agreement despite US allies advising against such a move.
Trump has formed cordial relations with Saudi Arabia and fully backs the oil kingdom in its brutal war against impoverished Yemen–a war that has killed more than 10,000 civilians.
US Senator Bernie Sanders in reaction to a Saudi-led coalition airstrike on a bus carrying Yemeni children in Yemen accused the United States of being complicit in this atrocity.
“By backing the Saudi coalition’s war in Yemen with weapons, aerial refueling and targeting assistance, the United States is complicit in this atrocity,” Sanders tweeted Friday.
“No one can seriously claim that our support for this war is actually making us safer,” the US senator said.
