Huckabee ‘buttering up Israel to get more money from AIPAC’: Former US senator
Former US Democratic senator Mike Gravel says Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee is trying to “butter up” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the AIPAC in order to persuade them to pour more money into his campaign.
Gravel made the remarks in a phone interview with Press TV on Monday when asked to comment on Huckabee’s statement about the agreement reached between Iran and the P5+1 group of countries -- the US, Britain, France, Russia, China, and Germany – in the Austrian capital Vienna, on July 14.
“We got nothing out of this deal,” Huckabee told CBS News on Sunday.
“What he is trying to do is to butter up or to try to curry favor with Netanyahu and the Israeli leadership so that AIPAC in the United States will pour money into his campaign for president,” said Gravel.
“To say that the United States did not get anything out of the agreement is ridiculous. The United States secured what it wanted,” said Gravel, who represented Alaska in the 1970s.
According to the text of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), Iran will be recognized by the United Nations as a nuclear power and will continue its uranium enrichment program.
But some restrictions will be placed on Iran’s nuclear program in exchange for the removal of sanctions against the Islamic Republic.
Gravel said, “His campaign for president is absolutely ridiculous. He probably won’t even appear in the forthcoming debate and so what he is doing is proving what the deficiency is with the entire Congress.”
“And that is the Congress takes these ridiculous positions that they are not in the interests of the United States, they are not even in the interests of Israel. And these are guided by the foolish position of Netanyahu and of course AIPAC in the United States,” he added.
Republican candidates are opposing the nuclear agreement to avoid angering the pro-Israel lobby and preventing their Democratic rivals from getting any political advantage by resolving the Iranian nuclear issue.
Gravel said that Iran never wanted to acquire a bomb and it was Netanyahu who was developing this lie that Iran is going to have the bomb in a year or two years.
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