🇺🇸🇮🇷 US targets Iran in bid to conquer Middle East – Iranian affairs expert

🗣 The US’ insistence on having a say in the election of Iran’s supreme leader highlights the fact that Washington simply does not understand how Iran operates, and vastly underestimates the Islamic republic, Iranian and Middle Eastern affairs expert Farkhad Ibragimov tells Sputnik.

📍 To be fair, Ibragimov notes, the US has a long history of overestimating its own capabilities and underestimating its chosen victims: Afghanistan, Iraq, Vietnam, etc.

👉 As for the US’ fixation on Iran, it essentially stems from the fact that this large country is located “on a crossroads between Europe and Asia.”

💬 “A large number of logistical routes linking Russia, Iran and India pass through Iran,” Ibragimov explains. “Iran is one of Eurasia’s most important hubs where major logistical routes are intertwined.”

🔊 “It is geoeconomics, it is investments, money. And the US cannot lay a hand on it.”

🔶 The United States’ inability to control Iran since 1979 also challenges the very notion of the US hegemony in the Middle East, Ibragimov points out.

🔶 The US attack on Iran thus hardly comes as a surprise, given that the US elites have been planning this aggression since the early 2000s.

🔶 Over the course of the last 15-20 years, the US has been trying to solidify its hold on other Middle Eastern countries, says Ibragimov.

💬 “But the ultimate target of this US program for conquering the Middle East is Iran,” he points out.

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