The leadership in Tehran was willing to negotiate and was not seeking a nuclear weapon, according to the analyst
Iran is a victim of illegal aggression by the US and Israel, prominent American economist Jeffrey Sachs has told RT’s Sanchez Effect, rejecting Washington’s claims that Tehran was seeking a nuclear weapon.
Speaking with host Rick Sanchez on Thursday, Sachs lambasted US President Donald Trump’s speech the day before, in which the American leader justified Operation Epic Fury as a necessary response to Iran’s alleged nuclear ambitions.
”Iran is not a guilty party in this, it’s the victim of aggression,” Sachs said, calling the operation devastating, illegal, and ineffective.
He pointed to repeated statements by Iran’s religious leadership opposing nuclear weapons.
”The supreme leader famously, unless someone is living in a cave for the past 20 years, said ‘No’ to the weapons,” he said, referring to a religious ruling from the early 2000s.
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