Trump and Netanyahu tried to divert domestic attention from Iran, says professor
The joint attack by the United States and Israel on Iran was, in the assessment of UnB International Relations professor Juliano Cortinhas to WW, a political maneuver to divert public attention from the domestic problems faced by the two countries.
Internal pressures as a backdrop
According to Cortinhas, the context in which the attack occurred cannot be analyzed in isolation.
"We cannot look at the issue of the United States-Iran relationship and place Israel in this middle of the road as an isolated issue," said the expert.
For him, the episode is part of a broader scenario that involves the Middle East as a whole.
The expert highlighted that both the Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, and the American President, Donald Trump, were going through moments of intense internal pressure.
In the case of Netanyahu, in addition to the government's instability, there was the crisis in Palestine - described by Cortinhas as "the genocide against the Palestinians" -, which generated criticism both within Israel and in the international system.
"With Iran, Netanyahu manages to divert the attention of the international environment to Iran", he analyzed.
Current negotiations will not resolve the crisis, says expert
For Cortinhas, ongoing renegotiation attempts should not lead to a definitive solution.
The expert recalled that Iran had already been attacked the previous year, and that, at the time, the annihilation of Iran's nuclear program was declared.
"If that were true, they wouldn't have attacked again this year", he pondered.
In his view, what is being sought now is just a postponement of the problem, possibly until after the mid-term elections in the United States, scheduled for November.
Cortinhas also mentioned the closure of the Strait of Hormuz as one of the factors that heightened the crisis and generated high tension in the region.
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