Washington’s makes an attempt to silence opposing voices are aimed toward drawing the general public eye away from issues at residence, an Iranian educational has stated
The US is riddled with home issues and has lengthy misplaced its place as a worldwide superpower, however it refuses to just accept that truth and makes use of sanctions to create the phantasm that it’s nonetheless in management, political analyst and Tehran College professor Seyed Mohammed Marandi informed RT on Friday. Talking mere hours after Washington introduced a slew of latest restrictions concentrating on the Russian outlet, Marandi stated the measures are yet one more signal that the American “regime” is “neither free, nor democratic.”
The US State Division on Friday accused RT of funding a whole covert disinformation community aimed toward influencing public opinion, interfering in US elections, and usually “meddling within the sovereign affairs” of nations world wide. Simply days earlier than, American intelligence companies hurled related accusations towards China and Iran, claiming each have been making an attempt to affect the result of the upcoming US presidential election. In keeping with Marandi, it’s “ironic” that the US is accusing others of the ways it has lengthy employed itself.
“It’s very clear the US has an extended historical past of coup d’etats, of interfering within the inner affairs of different international locations, of manipulating elections… It’s all ridiculous. The irony is obvious for everybody to see… the irony of what the US is claiming with regard to Iran or how its behaving in direction of Iran or Russia,” the analyst argued.
In keeping with Marandi, the US is concentrating on different international locations and their media with sanctions to cowl up its personal flaws in judgment and failed home and international insurance policies.
“Issues within the US will not be good, the individuals are dissatisfied, the nation is deeply divided… Then the US is waging confrontation and struggle all throughout the board… They merely can’t do that anymore. So as an alternative of accepting actuality that their insurance policies are incorrect, they attempt to blame others for his or her issues.”
America apparently has a really weak and weak regime if the Iranians and the Russians can simply manipulate occasions within the US… The US ought to actually step down and settle for that it’s now not a superpower.
Marandi famous that by sanctioning RT, the US simply proved as soon as extra that it lacks “self-confidence” to play honest and “no argument to place ahead to counter… what the Russians or the Iranians or the Palestinians should say.”
“The empire lacks self-confidence, and that lack of self-confidence is as a result of individuals on the prime are recognizing that the Titanic is sinking,” Marandi added, warning that until authorities in Washington “pursue extra sane insurance policies” with regard to different nations, the state of affairs is “going to worsen.”
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