US bound to keep relations with Iran

Tue, 08 May 2007

“Washington has no choice other than resuming relations with Iran,” Hezbollah Secretary General Hassan Nasrallah said on Monday.

“The US policy of boycotting Iran has not been successful. The US has failed to boycott Iran,” he said.

Under pressure to follow the line of the United States, certain countries of the Arab world and the rest of the international community have tried to boycott Syria, but this policy has reached a dead end because Syria will assume the leadership of the Arab League next year, he added.

On the possibility of US military action against Iran, Nasrallah said that psychological warfare against the country is the only thing currently on the US agenda.

He noted that US President George W. Bush is facing financial difficulties in waging his war in Iraq and can not start a new war with Iran, especially since there are serious disagreements in the US and the majority of US citizens do not want a new war, but rather are calling for withdrawal from Iraq.

Bush has no choice other than taking the advice of the Baker-Hamilton committee, and the US must resume its relations with Iran and Syria and pull its troops out of Iraq, he stated.

The Hezbollah leader also warned that the US seeks to create ethnic conflict in Iraq and elsewhere to divert attention from its own political failures.