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Washington equipping Israel with formidable US weapons: Richard A. Falk
American scholar Richard A. Falk says the Obama administration is seemingly equipping Israel with formidable weapons as a compensation for the Iran nuclear agreement.
Falk, American professor emeritus of international law at Princeton University and the author or co-author of some 20 books, made the remarks in an interview with Press TV on Thursday, after US President Barack Obama said he is confident that the nuclear agreement will go forward despite Republican lawmakers’ opposition.
Falk said there is a “very intense debate in the US Congress which is very much influenced by the Israeli lobbying and by big money lobbying.”
“And this is in some ways inconsistent with the American public opinion which is strongly in favor of the agreement, including even those who identify themselves as Republicans; Democrats by a ratio of 5 to 1 are in favor of the agreement,” he added.
“So Congress at this point is very unrepresentative of the American society as a whole, and it is an unfortunate development that is connected in large part with this move of the Republican Party as a party to the far-right and to its alignment with Israel and Israel’s very active effort in the United States to work against the approval of the agreement, or at least to get heavy compensation if the agreement in the end is approved,” he continued.
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