Armenian analyst: Iran is the last country where a plot against Putin is possible

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Reports on a plot against Russian President Vladimir Putin is a well-considered canard and nothing else, Armenian political analyst Levon Melik-Shakhnazaryan said talking to a REGNUM correspondent. According to him, such information actions are connected with unwillingness of some Western political circles let the process of rapprochement between Russia and Iran continue. Melik-Shakhnazaryan noted that theoretically, there is a danger of a plot against the president all over the world, in Russia as well, because many in the West do not like his policy, especially in the economy. However, he believes, Iran is seemingly one of the last countries where it can take place.

Overall, he believes, the problem of Iran is blown up artificially. An analogy suddenly comes to mind with the situation around Iraq, the analyst said. “Then, members of the IAEA and other organizations were searching for a nuclear bomb and any voices saying that Iraq was incapable of either technically or technologically of producing mass destruction weapons were suppressed. They needed to find the weapons, they were searching for it and when they failed, they started doing it in another way – with the help of the army,” Melik-Shakhnazaryan reminded. He supposed that the same situation would be unveiled around Iran. According to the political analyst, the problem of the Iranian nuclear weapons is closely connected with the country’s ideology. Had Iran been a pro-Western country and fulfilled all demands of the West, like, for instance, other countries in the region do, nobody would be looking for a nuclear bomb there, he noted. “Things come to absurd today: the IAEA says that it has no data that Iran plans to start production of nuclear weapons, other major powers, including Russia, say that they are not concerned with the fact, as there is no evidence that Iran plans to start producing nuclear weapons, however, the United States, the UK and a pair of other states, including Israel, ensures in the opposite,” Melik-Shakhnazaryan adding that the situation is “political risks of non-existing weapons.”