Azerbaijan, Baku, 14 August / Trend corr. D.Khatinoglu, G.Ahmadova / Aircraft carriers, which have been sent to the Persian Gulf by France, United States, UK and Japan, cannot be a ground to begin war, because diplomatic discussions between Iran and West have not yet reached a deadlock.
"Aircraft carriers, which West directed to the Persian Gulf, are not intended for war with Iran," Piruz Mujtahidzadeh, the chairman of the Urosevik Research Foundation of London, said to Trend .
Middle East Times website reported on 12 August that 5 aircraft carriers and a plenty of cruisers of the U.S., U.K., France and Japan headed for the Persian Gulf on 12 August. Dispatch of such quantity of ships to the region has not been observed since World War II, the website reported.
According to Mujtahidzadeh, dispatch of ships to the Persian Gulf is not the first similar event. "There were the U.S. aircraft carriers in the Persian Gulf in 2007. After the United States' green light, even the United Kingdom sent its military servicemen to the border on Iran in order to tease official Tehran. However, the war did not commence and tensions gradually reduced," Mujtahidzadeh, professor of the Tehran University, said in a telephone conversation on 12 August.
"In 2007, several U.K. seamen were arrested in the Persian Gulf due to violation of the Iranian sea borders and were released after a week," he said.
According to Mujtahidzadeh, all those manoeuvres are a gamelike war. Within July, the Iranian officials and generals of the Islam Revolution Guard Corps (Sepah) repeatedly stated that they would block the Ormuz strait in the Persian Gulf. On the other hand, West tries to impose sanctions on the Iranian oil industry in order to cancel the uranium enrichment plan of the country. Discussions were held at the U.S. Congress to suspend petrol import to Iran. Ships' dispatch to the Persian Gulf follows two goals, Alireza Nourizadeh, U.K.-based Iranian political scientist, said to Trend . The first goal is to keep the sea under control and to ensure security of the tankers passing through the Ormuz strait. The second goal is to supervise the Iranian oil export and petrol import. "West wants to block Iran," Nourizadeh said in a telephone conversation from London on 13 August.
According to Nourizadeh, strange ships have not entered the Persian Gulf since the U.K. ships left the Gulf in 1970. The Iranian nuclear program resulted in seizure of the gulf by foreign forces.
Wail Mirza, a Kuwaiti expert, told Trend about a war version and Kuwait's position on the issue. Kuwait's plan in case of a war is not fresh news, he said. "Kuwait has developed a special plan on war against Iran. Kuwait's position is obvious - it will avoid any war in the Persian Gulf, because blows can be delivered to Kuwait as well," Mirza said in a telephone conversation from Kuwait on 13 August.
According to Mirza, even if Kuwait has a war plan, it can comprise of oil well defence. The Kuwaiti policy is not intended to war against Iran. From the diplomatic standpoint, Kuwait opposes Iran's nuclear program and a war which can break out in the region. Even if the United States commences war against Iran in the Persian Gulf, everything will be evident. It will be like the war which the United States realized in Afghanistan and Iraq. According to the three experts', the United States has not refused from war against Iran.
Mujtahidzadeh said that sanctions against Iran would paralyze not the authorities, but the people. This is a tragedy. "Hundreds of Iranians died as a result of the sanctions. The Iranian officials hide it, but this is a fact. People's life is intolerable. This is one of States' most horrible crimes," Mujtahidzadeh said.
However, Nourizadeh believes that people's suffering is a crime committed by the Iranian authorities, and it is incorrect to blame others.
Ulviyya Sadigova contributed to the article.
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