The latest US accusations against Iran’s ballistic missile program are “completely invalid” and were made under pressure from the Zionist lobby in Washington, an American writer and retired professor says.
“The US has fabricated the issue of the missiles in order to retract, go back on its [nuclear] agreement,” said James Petras, a professor emeritus of sociology at Binghamton University in Binghamton, New York, and adjunct professor at Saint Mary’s University in Halifax, Nova Scotia in Canada.
The accusations were made “under the pressure of the electoral [presidential] campaign and the pressure of the Israeli government and its representatives in the United States,” Petras told Press TV on Tuesday.
“This proposal results from a speech [Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin] Netanyahu recently made and the US government…simply are echoing the Israeli position,” he added.
On Monday, Washington vowed to continue pushing for UN Security…