US and EU sacrifice their people for Israel: Analyst

A political analyst says the US and European countries are sacrificing the well-being of their own people for the sake of the Israeli regime, Press TV reports.

“It is pretty obvious, I think to everyone, that the higher prices of oil and gas right now are partially due to the sanctions against Iran and therefore Europeans and Americans are sacrificing basically the well-being of their own people for the sake of the Israeli regime,” said Mohammad Marandi, a professor at the University of Tehran.

He also noted that by imposing sanctions against Iran, the US and its European allies will lose their interests in the region and provoke anger among Iranians and other people of the world.

“They are being seen as trying to make ordinary Iranians suffer, …, although they are not successful as they like to and this has shown, I think, the very uncivilized side of the European and American politics,” Marandi said.

The United States, Israel and some of their allies accuse Iran of pursuing non-civilian objectives in its nuclear energy program with Washington and European Union using the false claim to impose illegal unilateral sanctions against the Islamic Republic.

Iran refutes the allegation, saying that the West uses nuclear issue as an excuse to pile up pressure on the Islamic Republic.

On October 10, the Leader of the Islamic Ummah Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei downplayed Western sanctions and said the Iranian nation will emerge victorious in the battle against sanctions as it has overcome much bigger problems over the past 33 years.

The Leader said that the US and certain European countries seek to link sanctions to Iran’s nuclear energy program, adding that the main reason behind anti-Iran embargoes was not, however, the nuclear issue but the Iranian nation’s resistance against the global hegemony.