Scott Lucas on Press TV: Will Israel Attack Iran?

Together with former CIA operative Robert Baer and University of Wisconsin professor Jennifer Loewenstein, I appeared on Middle East Today on Press TV on Thursday to discuss the possibility of Israeli military action against Tehran. I was the most sceptical of the panellists about that possibility: the Israeli threat, in my opinion, is best seen as a political manoeuvre to get Washington to break off engagement with Iran (and to stall on any negotiations over a Palestinian state), a point I also tried to make in The Guardian on Thursday.

Comments

[dade]

Israel would like to attack Iran because Iran is the new Fascist threat to the world.
As we saw the reaction of the world to the latest rising threat to the world in the 1930's, we better off that Israel will do the world a favor and take care of Iran.

We all know that the Sunnis (Saudi Araia, Kuwait, Iraq etc..) are also hoping for that to happen.

[Josh Mull]

That was some really good, level headed analysis, Scott.

Baer really gets under my skin, he's so unbelievably arrogant. Last night on Real Time he blatantly said Pakistan should go back to dictatorship, and then here he's just declaring as 100% fact that Iraq is going "to go bad again" whatever the f**k that means and all sorts of other outrageous bulls**t that HE DOESN'T KNOW. Gah, what a pathetic tiny little soul.

And LOL, could Press TV be any more biased? They're so much like FOX it's hilarious.