US wants control of Iran’s natural resources: American writer
The longstanding American and Western aggression against Iran is aimed at taking control of Tehran’s wealth and natural resources, a writer and researcher in Florida says.
Some Republican lawmakers in Congress are aggressively trying to forestall a nuclear agreement that can potentially bring peace instead of bloodshed between Iran and the West, said Walt Peretto.
“There is an underlying agenda here of aggression by the United States and other Western nations in the name of those interests who wish to take de facto control over Iran's money supply and natural resources,” Peretto told Press TV on Friday.
US Republican Senators Tom Cotton and Marco Rubio are attempting to toughen a bill with amendments including adding a requirement that Iran recognize Israel as an independent state as part of any potential nuclear agreement.
After being blocked by Democrats for several days, they used a procedural maneuver to force Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell to schedule a vote on the amendment on Thursday.
This is a “sick game refereed by those who seek world domination,” Peretto said. “These amendments appear to be designed to forestall a nuclear agreement which could very well lead to the United States taking an outwardly aggressive stance toward Iran.”
The amendment is brought up to legislation that would prevent the Obama administration from lifting sanctions against Iran until Congress reviews a final nuclear deal.
Senator Bob Corker, the Republican chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, is the author of the bill called the Iran Nuclear Review Act.
Iran and the P5+1 group of countries -- the US, Britain, France, China, Russia and Germany -- reached a framework agreement on Tehran’s nuclear program on April 2 in Switzerland. The two sides are working to finalize a deal by the end of June.
If a final deal is reached, it would lift all nuclear-related sanctions imposed against the Islamic Republic in exchange for certain steps Tehran will take with regard to its nuclear program.
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