AhlulBayt News Agency (ABNA): An Indian thinker and scholar said the policies of the US President Joe Biden and President-elect Donald Trump regarding the Middle East are the same.
Speaking to IQNA, Hojat-ol-Islam Syed Mohammad Askari, the president of the Ahl-ul-Bayt (AS) Foundation and a senior member of India’s Shia Scholars Leadership Council, said the outcome of the recent US presidential election and the return to power of Trump will not make a meaningful difference in the United States’ Middle East policies.
Trump and Biden are largely the same in this regard and a Trump presidency will not change much, he stated.
If the wars on the Gaza Strip and Lebanon come to an end with the arrival of Trump, it would not have much to do with Trump’s policies but will be more due to the fact that Israeli regime’s army is tired and has lost its morale after receiving severe blows from the axis of resistance, the cleric said.
He said that after the Al-Aqsa Flood Operation by Gaza resistance forces, the axis of resistance became stronger and will achieve more victories while the Zionist front is exhausted and demoralized.
He also referred to the defeat of Democrats in the US election and said the anger of many Americans at the Biden administration’s support for the Israeli genocide in Gaza was a contributing factor.
He condemned the hypocrisy of the US and other Western governments on the issue of Palestine, hoping that they would stop arming the child-killing Israeli regime.
Elsewhere in his remarks, Hojat-ol-Islam Askari referred to the Israel’s recent attack on Iran, saying it was a failed operation as Iran demonstrated its defense power and the country’s air defenses thwarted the Zionists’ attack.
He was also asked about the election of Sheikh Naim Qassem as the new secretary general of Lebanon’s Hezbollah resistance movement after the martyrdom of Sayed Hassan Nasrallah.
He stressed that Sheikh Qassem believes in the path of Nasrallah and will continue this path with the same bravery and decisiveness.
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