Assassination of Gen. Soleimani
great loss for world

Qodsna (Tehran) - On the occasion of the first anniversary of the martyrdom of General Qasem Soleimani, the commander of the Quds Force of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps, American university professor and co-founder of Scholars for 9/11 Truth”, James Fetzer said in an exclusive interview with Qodsn News Agency that: “General Soleimani was a great military leader and a politician of considerable aplomb, who made an enormous difference to the Middle East generally and to Iran specifically.”

“He was manifestly not a terrorist but the antithesis by marshalling forces against terrorism, especially actions rooted in Israel. It was a great loss for the world when he was assassinated by the Trump administration, which I deplore,” he added.

Fetzer then talked about Donald Trump’s policies in the Middle East, saying that: “Although Trump committed a massive blunder by taking him out, his attitude toward the Middle East by making efforts to remove US forces from a region where they would not have been introduced but for the false flag known as "9/11"--which was brought to use compliments of the CIA, Neocons in the Department of Defense and Mossad--the greater opposition to the presence of American troops will benefit the region at large.”

He further noted that US intelligence community concluded in 2007 that “Iran was not pursuing the development of nuclear weapons, which it reaffirmed in 2011, months before even the Mossad agreed--only weeks before Bibi went to the UN and proclaimed the opposite.”

Referring to US sanctions against countries around the world especially against Iran, the US political analyst stressed that “the use of sanctions is a form of collective punishment, which is proscribed by international law and the UN Charter. In my view, such sanctions disgrace the United States, where earlier "no fly zones" over Iraq led to the death of 500,000 infants. That was grossly immoral and the President of the United States ought to know better. Peaceful negotiations are unlikely to solve the problem created my Israel's determination to dominate the entire region.”

Fetzer also talked about his prediction about US policies in the future, saying that “If Trump were to continue in office, which I hope with every fiber of my being, then US forces will be removed from the Middle East and the region will be that much better off.”

“If Biden should gain control of the government, however, then you can expect a resurgence of the failed policies of the past, where the Middle East will continue to suffer from war and death and everything evil that goes along with it because of the influence of the military-industrial-complex that Eisenhower warned us about,” he added.