The British imperial interests do not intend to let the fragile ceasefire in the Persian Gulf area open the door to a permanent peace. This was the message delivered Wednesday morning, barely 15 hours after the ceasefire was announced, by the former head of the British Secret Intelligence Service (MI6), “Sir” Richard Dearlove, in an interview on Rupert Murdoch’s “TalkTV” channel.
Asked if he thinks the ceasefire will hold, Dearlove stated categorically: “No.” He dismissed the ceasefire as “just another chapter in a long-running dispute which at the moment is a war” from the get-go. “I don’t think we should get over-excited by it,” he recommended. “It’s a ceasefire, and only for two weeks, and the conditions the Iranians are asking for, it seems to me, are completely unacceptable to the U.S. So, we’ll see where it goes.”
Dearlove justified President Donald Trump’s threat to “obliterate” Iran as just responding in kind to Iran, and put out the line that Iran “had blinked” in the face of the American capability to do “massive damage” to Iran’s critical infrastructure.
