Wars to continue in Middle East: Kerry tells PG states’ leaders

US Secretary of State John Kerry has met with the top officials of certain Persian Gulf states to reassure them that Washington will keep making “unreasonable demands on Iran” and arming “the unnecessary wars in the region,” says Scott Rickard, a political commentator.

Kerry, who arrived in Riyadh late on Wednesday, met with Saudi Arabian King Salman and reassured him that an emerging nuclear deal with Iran would not pose any danger to the monarchy.

Kerry has also met with foreign ministers of Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates in a bid to ease their concerns about the progressing nuclear talks with Iran.

“The Americans and their allies are incredibly embedded in the region and so their talks with Qatar, the United Arab Emirate, Bahrain, Kuwait and Saudi Arabia that John Kerry has done over the last few days are just reassuring their allies that the US will continue to basically, status quo, provide unreasonable demands on Iran and at the same time continue to arm these unnecessary wars in the region to keep the chaos going in these countries,” Rickard told Press TV on Thursday.

He said the US and its allies “do not want to see the power of those countries emerge and be able to not only defend themselves but also be able to come economically strong and economically independent.”

He went on to say that “the US has already gone beyond what’s reasonable with regard to sanctions and has also provided no real, I guess, legitimate discussions around the capability of Iran to continue their nuclear development for energy.”

“I think what we see here is more rhetoric and they’re going to the Persian Gulf states to assure them that this is something that will continue to be difficult, the deadline now is July 1, certainly there is no agreement on the table, it would be good to see the agreement go through,” he added.

He also said that the remarks made by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at a joint session of the US Congress in Washington, DC, on Tuesday have been lamented by many American lawmakers.

“Certainly the kind of feedback that’s coming from Netanyahu’s speech to Congress has been positive whereby many individuals in the United States both on the left and even on the right have denounced a lot of the rhetoric that Netanyahu has been pushing, really messianic apoplectic rhetoric for almost two decades now whereby every time he speaks about the nuclear development of arms, he’s always said it would be within one year, but that was 20 years ago, it’s pretty obvious that Iran has not pursued a nuclear weapons program,” he stated.

Netanyahu said Tuesday, “We’ve been told for over a year that no deal is better than a bad deal. Well this is a bad deal, a very bad deal. We’re better off without it.”

President Barack Obama dismissed Netanyahu’s address, saying, "as far as I can tell, there was nothing new" in the speech.

Iran and the P5+1 group - Russia, China, France, Britain, the US and Germany – are negotiating to narrow their differences over the Islamic Republic’s nuclear energy program ahead of a July 1 deadline.

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