‘Putin has put West's false claims in spotlight'

Press TV has conducted an interview with Jim W. Dean, managing editor of the Veterans Today from Atlanta, to discuss the recent remarks by Russian President Vladimir Putin about Iran's nuclear program and the fight on terror in the Russian resort city of Sochi.

The following is a rough transcription of the interview. 

Press TV: What do you think about the Russian president’s speech in Sochi and about the fact that US President Barack Obama earlier in Prague declared that there is no need for a missile system if Iran’s so-called nuclear threat is eliminated?

Dean: Well, once again cool Mr. Putin is playing his diplomatic cards very well, never making a mistake. He is doubling down. We have just come through the Iranian nuclear talks when the over one-decade hoax of the secret Iranian nuclear weapons program was exposed for a complete hoax which the media did not cover very much. (It) is one of the big outcomes of all those negotiations because neither the US or Israel ever put any evidence that they claim to have that Iran had a nuclear program.

And irrelatively, as we are now, that was the basis they wanted to put the missile program in. So we know that was a hoax also. So Putin now is reminding everybody of this history that the US and the allied NATO and EU have created these threats to enable to back up, make their public fearful so that they will support the military moves that they do not want to do.  

Press TV: Well, you are calling it a “hoax” Jim, when then we are seeing the United States using all these pretexts for attacking different countries, for leveling sanctions against them, for doing all these embargoes against different countries and yet we are seeing them fund what they call “moderate terrorist groups” as opposed to non-moderate terrorist groups. So what is the US actually pursuing in the Middle East and elsewhere in the world when it comes to its foreign policy?

Dean: Every cab driver in the planet, even in the most third world country in the smallest town now is aware of the Western game of these hoax terrorist movements. They create threats that require them to, supposedly under security reasons, have to do regime changes so that they have a friend in your governments. This is completely being exposed now because when Putin wins in Syria, he offers to cooperate with the West, everybody. He has offered anybody that want to join, ‘Let’s join hands about this ISIS problem; it is a problem for all of us; we need to work together,' and he was rejected, rejected, rejected by everybody other than the airplane coordination of not running in each other. And as the program has been successful, rather than being happy, you are seeing NATO, Turkey, all of those countries that are supporting terrorism are very unhappy. So he has put them in the spotlight. Everybody knows now who has been using terrorism to support regime change and who the real threat is.

So I think you are going to be seeing others rallying around Putin. His approval rating is up to 19 percent in Russia now and they will probably be 95 percent in the world. He is by far the most popular world leader now and he may be the most popular world leader in the past 50 years.

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