Abrams a ‘notorious criminal,’ to target axis of resistance

The new US representative for Iran is “one of the most notorious criminals” in the country, who aims take on axis of resistance in West Asia, says a political commentator.

“And he's not just an unconvicted criminal like people like, I could name just about every high-level US politician, but he's actually been convicted of some of his crimes,” said Kevin Barrett, an American author, journalist and radio host in an interview with Press TV Sunday.

He further enumerated a series of crimes that Elliott Abrams, who was recently appointed as a replacement for Brian Hook, has committed in the past, including “drug smuggling to arm vicious paramilitaries,” and mass murder and rape of women and children in Central America in the past.

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“The soldiers were quoted as saying 10-year-olds were their favorite. They stabbed babies, impaled babies on bayonets and tossed them up into the air and caught them again on the bayonets; and Elliott Abrams, who was part of the group that was responsible for this, worked to try to cover it up and reward the killers and the criminals. And he's done the same thing over and over,” Barrett said.

A “fanatical neo-conservative Zionist,” Abrams also “conspired to blow up the World Trade Center” on September 11, 2001, noted the analyst, who has been studying the 9/11 attacks since late 2003.

“He's a coward and a chicken hawk who avoided service in Vietnam by claiming that he had a sore back and he had a sore back during the entire period he was eligible for the draft, which kept him away from Vietnam,” said the political commentator. “And since then, he's never had any indication of a sore back.”

‘When things get ugly’

The abrupt appointment of Hook on Thursday clearly demonstrated  how the US foreign policy towards the Islamic Republic is in tatters.

Barrett further acknowledged that the Trump administration’s decision to replace Hook with Abrams is “an admission of complete failure,” adding that the 72-year-old “always gets sent in when things are getting ugly.”

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“And now he's being sent in to go after the axis of resistance.”

The US campaign of “maximum pressure” meanwhile, continues with no tangible results for the US State Department, headed by hawkish ex-CIA chief, Mike Pompeo.

Pompeo confirmed in a statement that Hook was stepping down from his post to be replaced by the State Department's special representative for Venezuela.

With Tehran showing a strong resistance in the face of the US government’s anti-Iran approach, it is unlikely for the new hawk to record any achievements for America’s broken foreign policy.

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