Westerners in need of promoting ties with Iran : Analyst

Press TV has interviewed E. Michael Jones, editor of Culture Wars Online Magazine in Indiana, to discuss the remarks made by Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani, saying Tehran is ready to cooperate with other countries to tackle terrorism as a global challenge.

The following is a rough transcription of the interview.

Press TV: Iran has come out stating that they are ready to cooperate with regional countries to tackle terrorism on a number of occasions. Why is it that there appears to be not such a receptive reaction towards Iran’s call for tackling such a huge problem?

Jones: I think if you check a country like Germany as an example, Germany is in a bind because they are in a sense a vassal state of the United States, so they have to do what the American foreign policy controllers tell them to do. In this instance, it means that they are going along with a boycott of Russia. Now Schroder is interesting because after he left, after he was chancellor he went and became head of Gazprom, the Russian oil and gas producing company.

So now the question is if you go along with United States and you boycott Russia then you have a shortage in terms of gas. How do you make that up? Well this I think shows why the Germans are so eager to cooperate with Iran on terrorism because they are desperately in need of the gas and the oil that Iran can provide.

This was I think the main force driving the lifting of the sanctions. When the whole Republican Party was dominated by the Israel lobby and threatening to break the agreement with Iran in the United States, the European delegation and the Germans came to the United States and said basically ‘look, if you hold this up we are going to declare the lifting of the sanctions unilaterally.’ So I think that is what is driving this overture on the part of the Germans. They are in desperate need of gas and oil and Iran looks like the only game in town right now.    

Press TV: We had Germany that came out recently and blamed Saudi Arabia for supporting extremism and actually said that the world cannot afford to keep looking away and of course that goes in the face of Saudi Arabia being an ally of the US. Do you think that that is going to have any weight in terms of Germany’s stance against Saudi Arabia when it comes to tackling terrorism?

Jones: I think that Saudi Arabia is in big trouble right now and I think that they may not be as reliable as they were in the past and I think they have six months to basically break Russia and if they do not break Russia within six months, well then the prices are going to go back up and so Germany has this window of opportunity, where they have to act now while the situation is still fluid.

Again all of these overtures are complicated because they all have complex reactions. So for example the Saudis yes, they are over pumping, they are over producing, they are driving the price down but that is destroying the fracking industry in the United States. So eventually this machine is so complicated, it gets a little bit out of balance and it starts falling apart. I think that is what is going to happen over the next six months.

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