'Regime change' is US long term policy for anti-Western nations: Researcher

The long-term geopolitical strategy of the United States is implementing “regime change” in anti-Western governments in the Middle East and elsewhere, a writer and researcher in Washington says.

“Global policy makers behind the scenes let it be known in the last 15 years that regime change was desired in Libya, Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan, Iran, and other countries and it was implemented in several of these countries,” Walt Peretto said Saturday in a phone interview with Press TV.

“So we need to keep an eye on what the long-term geopolitical strategies of the West actually are in reality,” Peretto said.

“I call for an increased awareness by the people of the world of just what is behind all this posturing and reveal the true goals of the West,” he added.

The researcher predicted that the nuclear agreement reached between Iran and the P5+1 group of countries will survive in the US Congress when it goes to a vote on September 17.

Congress will vote in the coming weeks on the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) agreed between Iran and the P5+1 -- the United States, Britain, France, China, Russia and Germany – in Vienna on July 14.

The White House has secured more than 34 votes that President Barack Obama needs to sustain a veto of any congressional resolution rejecting the Iran agreement.

Republicans, who control both houses of Congress, oppose the agreement because they say it gives too many concessions to Iran and threatens the security of Israel.

On Thursday, US Secretary of State John Kerry said the next US president cannot afford “to walk away from” the nuclear accord.

Peretto said the nuclear agreement will become a major campaign issue in the US presidential election in the next 14 months.

“Then depending on who the next president is, we may see the breaking of the agreement by the United States and increased pressure on Iran to capitulate to the whims and policies of the Western imperial mindset that has prevailed in geopolitics for a long, long time,” he said.

“So what we see here as we head into next year's election cycle in the United States is a general divide between the two controlling parties with Obama, Kerry, and the Democrats accomplishing peace for now and Republicans who want to concede nothing to Iran and play hardball on behalf of Israel who have no desire to see a strong Iran in the Middle East,” Peretto concluded.