Trump’s speech, admission to 40-year failure - experts

A panel discussion in Tehran on role of Israel lobby in Trump’s anti-Iran speech was told that Israel remains sustained element in the US foreign and domestic policy.

A panel discussion was held in Tehran on the role of Israel lobby in the US President Donald Trump’s anti-Iranian stance.

Panelists were the Palestinian Islamic Jihad movement’s representative in Tehran, Naser Abu Sharif and Iranian expert in the West Asian affairs, Hossein Kanani Moqaddam.

The event was hosted by the Iranian based Society in Defense of the Palestinian Nation and organized by the Qods News Agency (Qodsna).

Early in the session, Kanani Moqaddam said Trump’s speech was an admission to a 40-year failure of the US and Israel in the face of the regional Islamic resistance.

As for the role of Israel lobby, he said Trump actually set in place a prelude for a scenario. “Trump came to power with a neither-war-nor-peace mission and seeks to have pro-resistance states to submit to the US while the Arab states are planned to pay the costs,” he said.

“If (the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin) Netanyahu was to speak in place of Trump, he could have not managed the situation well as Trump did,” he said.

Kanani Moqaddam said Trump seeks to open a new front against Iran alongside Arab states, adding his use of the misnomer instead of the Persian Gulf title was the codename of the US scenarios in the region.

For his part, Abu Sharif said Israel was a sustained element of the US foreign and domestic policy.

The Palestinian figure touched on the Israeli lobby’s investment in the US presidential elections and said the extreme right party has a major role in manipulating the US.

“Trump is rather a contractor than a politician,” he said.