American General: War With Iran Can Divert Focus From China.
According to Sputnik, General Alex Grinkovich, head of the US Air Force Central Command, considered any new crisis and war in West Asia to the detriment of Washington’s interests and said: “The start of a war with Iran or other crises in the Middle East can divert the military and strategic attention of the United States.” to divert from its priority goal, which is to react to China as its main competitor in the region.
“If there is a war with Iran, the Middle East could derail our focus on China,” Grinkovich said Wednesday at the Defense One Technology Summit. “China receives 42 percent of its oil and hydrocarbon imports through the Persian Gulf and passing through the Strait of Hormuz.”
This senior US military general said: “Just as thousands of missiles can target the country in question, Iran has also deployed thousands of missiles on its southern borders to prevent the US from accessing its naval and air facilities in the region, imagine the Gulf If Fars turns into a Chinese lake… what are its consequences?”
At the same time, White House spokesperson Karen Jean-Pierre claimed in her weekly press conference with reporters that Washington prefers diplomacy with Iran and that Washington’s priority with Iran is dialogue and diplomacy.
At the same time, this American official repeated the claims against Iran and said: Our policy towards Iran has not changed. We have been focused on limiting Iran’s destabilizing behavior through pressure by working closely with our allies, although the Biden administration is taking the issue of American prisoner exchanges seriously. Over the past two years, we have been able to release more than 12 detained Americans.
Previously, at the same time as the Western media speculated about the possibility of revitalizing the JCPOA, the US foreign minister repeated his baseless claims against Iran in Riyadh and said: Washington’s focus is not on reviving the nuclear negotiations.
Repeating Washington’s claims against Iran in blaming Tehran for the failure of the nuclear talks, Anthony Blinken claimed: “Since Joe Biden came to power, we have tried many times with our European, Chinese, and Russian partners to achieve this agreement, but Iran did not take a step and Or it will not make an effort to take the necessary steps to return to the nuclear agreement.
He once again blamed Tehran for the failure of JCPOA negotiations and considered diplomacy as the best way to prevent what he called Tehran’s attempt to obtain nuclear weapons.
The US foreign minister once again explained the repeated anti-Iranian policies and showed that the foreign media’s claim that the revival of the nuclear agreement is imminent is false.
At the same time, Nasser Kanani, the spokesperson of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, in his recent press conference, in response to the question of whether the exchange of messages and indirect negotiations between Iran and the United States is for returning to the JCPOA or is it in another framework, stated: Answer We do not have a hard time with this question and we have clear and principled views on the JCPOA issue.
He said: Iran has never stopped diplomatic processes. Our criterion is the performance of our opposite parties, not the media statements that are made.
The spokesperson of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs stated: The 13th government has stated a principled and clear policy regarding the JCPOA from the beginning, and that JCPOA is not the subject of our foreign policy, but rather one of the issues related to foreign policy, and in connection with the agreement, it has been announced that any An agreement in addition to the strong and logical recommendations of the leader of the revolution as well as the national interests and the law of strategic action of the parliament in order to ensure the maximum interests of the country and not to deviate from the red lines is the attention of the negotiating team.
