After 12 days of missile attacks, US President Donald Trump announced a ceasefire, and Israel and Iran agreed, but violated it.
"The tension has not been extinguished in any way. We hope that at least the strikes have stopped. We now accept the strikes on nuclear sites as normal. We saw a murder on a list and this against the background of an absence of mention, "said former Deputy Foreign Minister Lyubomir Kyuchukov on "Denyat ON AIR".
According to the guest, for Benjamin Netanyahu, war is necessary.
"It was declared from the very beginning that the goal was also to stop the nuclear program and change the regime in Iran. The problem remains primarily from the point of view of the extent to which the International Atomic Energy Agency will be allowed to conduct the necessary inspections, because its reports indicated first that Iran cannot create nuclear weapons, and on the other hand, that it is enriching uranium," Kyuchukov added for Bulgaria ON AIR.
According to him, the West has credibility problems.
"We accept as morally justified to seek a solution to global problems through war. It is an open secret that Israel has nuclear weapons and neither denies nor confirms. There is a difference between Israel and Iran," the guest commented. We are observing a serious problem with long-term confrontation, Kyuchukov is convinced.
"Diplomacy is a tool of politics and does not find its place when we are throwing missiles at each other. There is only one active treaty between Russia and the US, and that is the Strategic Arms Treaty. In the absence of these guarantees, the accumulation of weapons is a race in rearmament, not security. Russia is attacking individual villages in Ukraine. To claim that it would attack NATO seems unrealistic. This is part of the general narrative that we are observing," the expert explained.