US sanctions, threats against Iran are part of a long war: Expert

An American political commentator has said that the United States has been waging a war on Iran since the first Bush administration “to restore the monopoly that US companies once had on the world's oil reserves.”

Bill Dores, a writer for Struggle/La Lucha and longtime antiwar activist, said in an interview with Press TV on Tuesday that “US sanctions and war threats against Iran are part of a long war.”

A US senator has vehemently denounced former US president Donald Trump’s policy of “maximum pressure” against Tehran, warning that the Iran hawks, who used to champion the wrong approach, are now trying to prevent his successor Joe Biden from opting out of it.

“Trump's "maximum pressure" campaign proved a catastrophic failure,” Senator Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) tweeted on Monday.

Senator: Trump’s campaign against Iran 'catastrophic failure'

A US senator has lashed out at former US president Donald Trump’s policy of “maximum pressure” against Iran.

“It's important to understand the actual motivation for Washington's long hate campaign against Iran. It is not really about nuclear power or military capability,” Dores told Press TV.

“When the tyrant Shah ruled Iran -- before the Islamic Revolution -- the country was basically a US colony. US companies sold Shah massive quantities of weapons and even had contracts to build nuclear power plants there, just as they supply unending quantities of weapons to the racist state of Israel today. In return the Shah dutifully parked Iran’s oil revenues in US banks,” he stated.

“US sanctions and war threats against Iran are part of a long war the United States has been waging since the first Bush administration to restore the monopoly US companies once had on the world's oil reserves, energy reserves. That war cannot be won. This is not 1953,” the analyst noted.

“There is a struggle going on now in Washington over what course to pursue. Senator Murphy speaks for those who fear Europe and the rest of the world will go ahead and work with Iran on their own, and that US companies will be shut out, will be the losers. But there are powerful forces who want to not only continue the sanctions, but escalate to war,” he said.  

“Today is the world day of action against the war in Yemen, the US-Saudi genocidal war in Yemen. President Biden promised he would put an end to that war or put an end to US participation. So far, that hasn't been done. He also promised he would send out, the day after taking office, stimulus checks that many desperate people need. That hasn't happened yet,” he said.

US engaged in 30-year futile war in Middle East: Expert

An American political commentator has said that the United States has been engaged in a 30-year long futile war in the Middle East to regain the monopoly on the world

“Right now, in my own state in New York, they have cut off vaccines. They say there are not enough vaccines in New York State. The rollout has been a disaster. Meanwhile, they have endless money for war fleets in the Persian Gulf, in the Mediterranean, to arm Israel and to keep US  troops in Iraq and Syria,” he said.

“We need a mass movement here to tilt the scale,  to demand an end to sanctions against Iran, against Venezuela, against Cuba, Zimbabwe  and other countries. We need money for jobs and housing, for medical care, not for war,” he noted.  

“We need to end the sanctions. We need to bring all those ships and troops and planes home. And that's going to take a mass movement to achieve that. The interests of the majority of people of this country are the same as that of the people of Iran, for peace and working together, not endless war, either economic or military,” the analyst concluded.

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