‘Catastrophic Consequences’ of Threatening Iran

Date: 15 July 2022 - 22:06

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TEHRAN -- A U.S.-based analyst has derided President Joe Biden’s threat of using “force” against Iran during his visit to the occupied Palestinian territories, saying Americans and the Zionists are aware of the “catastrophic” consequences of such threats.
“Not bombing Iran despite the constant threats has been for good reason mindful of how catastrophic the outcome could be for Israel,” Giorgio Cafiero, the chief executive officer of Washington-based Persian Gulf State Analytics, told Press TV Friday.
He said since the 1990s, the Zionist regime “has been threatening to bomb Iran’s nuclear facilities” but hasn’t mustered the courage to walk the talk.
“In terms of Biden threatening to use force as a last resort, it is doubtful that either the U.S. or Israel would bomb Iran’s nuclear facilities,” said Cafiero, who is a regular contributor to the Washington-based think tank the Middle East Institute.
“Doing so would be too risky for either the U.S. or Israel—hence why the Trump, Obama, and George W. Bush administrations all decided against doing so.”
On the joint “strategic declaration” signed between Washington and the occupying regime, the analyst stressed that there is little difference between Biden and his predecessor Donald Trump, insisting that both are “aligned extremely closely with Israel’s government on issues in the Middle East.”
“This is particularly so when it comes to Iran and the Abraham Accords,” he said, referring to U.S.-brokered agreements of normalization between the occupying regime of Israel and some Arab regimes.
Pointing to repeated claims by Biden and the Zionist regime’s acting premier Yair Lapid that Iran should never be allowed to obtain nuclear weapons, Cafiero predicted the breakdown in talks aimed at reviving the Iran nuclear deal, known as the JCPOA (Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action), insisting that Washington and its allies in the Middle East “are preparing for the nuclear talks to collapse in acrimony.”
“The Biden administration seeks to make its positions on Iran-related issues clear to the Israelis while also understanding how Tel Aviv sees the Islamic Republic as we appear to be on the verge of entering a new era in which the JCPOA is permanently dead,” he said.
Responding to a question about

Biden’s planned meeting with Saudi Arabia’s crown prince Muhammad bin Salam, Cafiero said the Ukraine conflict and the ensuing turmoil in global energy markets have pushed the U.S. to reassess its ties with the Saudi regime and its leadership.
“The White House now believes that any moral costs of Biden visiting Mohammed bin Salman in Jeddah will not outweigh the perceived benefits,” he said.
“With the Biden administration viewing the kingdom as a critical U.S. partner in the Middle East, the White House sees itself as having no choice but to engage Muhammad bin Salman more deeply.”
Prior to embarking on his tour of Occupied Palestine and Saudi Arabia, Biden published an article in the Washington Post -- for which the slain Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi used to work – in a bid to justify his visit to the kingdom. The article was riddled with inaccuracies and fallacies.
During his presidential campaign prior to taking office, Biden had vowed to make the Saudi regime a “pariah,” pledging to teach dictators “a lesson”, not to supply arms to Riyadh, and to halt the Saudi-led aggression against neighboring Yemen.
Biden has broken all those promises and is seeking to reinforce the so-called Abraham Accords that normalized the Arab-Israeli relationship and amassed the Arab regimes against Iran.
Biden last week boasted that he will be the first American president to fly from occupied Palestine to Saudi Arabia.