US has long way to rebuild trust in Iran: Analyst
Press TV has conducted an interview with E. Michael Jones, editor of Culture Wars Online Magazine in Indiana, to discuss the breakthrough in nuclear talks between Iran and the P5+1 group of countries.
The following is a rough transcription of the interview.
Press TV: Looking at the business side of things or the economics of this- let me use her words, the EU Foreign Policy Chief Federica Mogherini. She said, in particular for her personally, when sanctions are lifted you can expect major attention from EU investment. Some have analyzed the warm reception by the EU as a signal to US Congress through the business channel. Do you agree with that assessment?
Jones: Yes I do…The people of the United States of America are now being subjected to a huge propaganda … by the Israel lobby. AIPAC has announced it is going to spend in the next 60 days between 20 and 40 million dollars on TV ads to influence both the members of Congress. So what you are seeing here is a big political crisis once again and the crisis is ‘does America has its own foreign policy, can America conduct its foreign policy or are we simply a satellite, a vassal state of the Israel lobby?’
If the United States does not do this we see what is waiting in the wings. The European Union is going to rush in, they are going to close all these deals and American businessmen, whose traditional representative is the Republican Party who are the worst defenders in this regard, the biggest lap dogs of the Israel lobby, those business interests are going to be left out in the cold.
Press TV: Iran’s Foreign Minister had said during this press conference that the US needs to compensate Iran based on the mistrust that it has caused amongst Iranians. Do you think that the US’ overall approach towards Iran is going to be different from this point on in various fields or how would you look at those statements made by Zarif?
Jones: First of all, who we are talking about? We have two different parties representing two different positions at this point. The Democrats want the deal the Republicans do not want the deal. So it is impossible to talk about the American government at this point. You have a conflict, but if we are talking about replacing mistrust, it is going to take a long time and the deal and the lifting of the sanctions is only the first step.
We are going to need a long period of mutually beneficial relationships to rebuild the trust that has been destroyed by the American government beginning with the Mosadeq coup d’état in 1953. So we have a long history here that we have to make up for and the first step has to be the lifting of the sanctions. There is no way around.
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