‘Provocative step…’: West Asia Strategist Waiel Awwad condemns US strikes on Iran

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New Delhi, June 22, 2025 (ANI): West Asia Strategist Waiel Awwad said, “Iran is a civilisation and Iran will not succumb to the pressure of the United States.” “I think this is a very provocative step taken by an American president who's supposed to be leading this world to avoid wars...I think there will be a retaliation from the Iranian side because they have the full right and the legitimacy, as per the UN Charter and international law, to retaliate against any country attacking a sovereign nation...”

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00:00Well, I think this is a very provocative step taken by an American president

00:04who's supposed to be leading this world to avoid wars,

00:08and he has come to the power and promising the world that there will be no attack on any country

00:13and we are here to save the world from any catastrophe.

00:17Here we see him taking this initiative even without having a constitutional right to go for it,

00:23even he did not inform the Congress of this attack.

00:25Therefore, he has provoked, he's turning this, engulfing the whole West Asia on fire,

00:31and I think there will be a retaliation from the Iranian side because they have the full right

00:37and the legitimacy to, as per the UN charter and the international law,

00:42to retaliate against any country attacking a sovereign nation.

00:45See, the problem with the American is that they're thinking by showing their muscles

00:49and attacking a sovereign nation, they can bring Iran to the table.

00:52Iran is a civilization and Iran will not succumb to the pressure of the United States.

00:57The talk on the nuclear was on for years.

01:00The American president himself, he pulled out of this talk in 2018 in his first tenure,

01:06promising that he will bring a better deal.

01:09And now we can see that this deal is only by destroying what a peaceful program was,

01:13according to international agencies, nuclear agencies,

01:18which have been already inspecting and supervising the Iranian program.

01:22But because we know, as Mr. Clinton, former president of the United States, said,

01:28that the American going for this war is only because of Mr. Prime Minister Netanyahu,

01:34who wanted this war to be expanded and he took for his own political survival.

01:39During this war, they must now make peace.

01:43If they do not, the future attack would be far greater and easier.

01:47Absolutely.

01:48That is the main objective of this war, is not the nuclear program of Iran.

01:54We all know that is a regime change.

01:56The United States policy has been continuously on since Afghanistan,

02:00continued to Libya, and now they are coming back to Iran.

02:03This is only Iran left in the West Asian region that the Americans wanted to remove this regime

02:09and conquer the whole region of West Asia.

02:12Imagine if the Americans destroy Iran right now.

02:16The Strait of Hormuz, the Red Sea, and the Mediterranean Sea is fully under the American control.

02:21And who will be suffering?

02:22It is the South Asian nation, India, China, Japan, Korea,

02:26who depend on the oil from that part of the world.

02:29And I think there where we are, the ramification and the impact of such kind of an action

02:34will be felt in India and the rest of Asia.

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