US Republican Presidential candidates have openly called for supporting Israel in sabotaging Iran's nuclear program through terrorism and assassinating Iranian scientists. Press TV has interviewed James Morris, editor of America-hijacked.com from Los Angeles to discuss the issue.


What follows is a rough transcription of the interview:

Press TV: Mr. Morris, the US has waged two wars in the name of fighting against terrorism and it has killed many people in the course of these wars, including thousands of American soldiers who have lost their lives, but at the same time it is promoting and engaging in terror activities. How do you explain this contradiction?

Morris: Well, first of all thank you for having me back on Press TV. To your question you are talking about the Neo- conservatives in the American government- actually in America that have a lot of influence not only on the Republicans in the US congress but also in the executive branch.

You saw Barack Obama attack Libya because of Neo-conservative pressure brought upon [US secretary of state] Hillary Clinton along with, you know, politicians in France and in the UK as well.

But what we're looking at here is the Republicans [who] are basically a mouthpiece for this Neo-conservative agenda and that goes back to the invasion of Iraq, which was based on their clean break agenda.

It was a war for Israel. It was not a war in America's interest. You had over 5000 or close to 5000 American soldiers dead as a result of a war for Israel on Iraq based on that clean break Neo-conservative agenda.

Now they have their sight set on Iran and we're talking about [GOP presidential candidates] Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich and they are basically propagandists, advocates as well as John McCain [Republican president nominee in 2008] was for this Neo-conservative war-mongering agenda that has Iran and Syria in its sight next.

And if you look at Newt Gingrich my good friend [another speaker on the show] Steven Sniegoski, author of "The transparent Cabal" will elaborate on this further. He has written an excellent book on this, how these Neo-cons got us into Iraq for Israel.

They have basically had an agenda that go after Iran for a long time. They are associated with groups like the Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs (JINSA), the project for the new American century which is defunct, now only a name.

And you've got these Neo-conservative entities; [US Vice President under Bush] Dick Cheney was associated with him and even under the [former US president] George W. Bush regime, Dick Cheney was pushing for reaction against Syria and Iran for Israel as well.

Fortunately George Bush didn't listen to him in that second regime, in his second term and we didn't go to war with Iran. But I'm telling you I've just seen a recent report that says the Debkafile website, which is associated with the Mossad I believe, has said that US and Israel may attack Iran as early as next December and that's very concerning.

Press TV: James, it seems like you wanted to comment on what Dr. Sniegoski said?

Morris: Yeah, I agree with what Dr. Sniegoski's saying he makes an eloquent argument to that effect in his transparent Cabal book.

Basically the war with Iran when it comes- and I do think it is coming; it's just a matter of time- it's not really to go after resources necessarily because Iran I'm sure just like [executed Iraqi dictator] Saddam Hussein was, is willing to sell the US as much oil as it wants, Saddam Hussein certainly was willing to.

I think you can make an argument that if you looked at the American oil companies and natural gas companies, they would very much like to go into Iran, to do business with Iran, but it's the Israel lobby and the oppression on at that lobby, the Neo-conservatives that are preventing that.

And they've had a much strong influence over the American government with AIPAC, The American Israel Public Affairs Committee which the Baltimore Sham where the Israel lobby and US foreign policy book discusses.

And you can go back to the email exchanges that I had with [CIA director] General Petraeus last year who was the head of [Central Command] Centcom and you had the arch Neo- conservative [American author, consultant and military historian] Max Boot basically telling Petraeus what to do.

I mean it was incredible how General Petraeus was groveling to him and that's where we see a much more militaristic position that the US had in Afghanistan and with Pakistan.

There is a recent article that came out when Max Boot was advocating military action against Pakistan...

Press TV: I want to look at what you have just said, about the differences between the big businesses and everything, in general with what we just heard from these Republican candidates advocating terrorism directly.

Where does the outrage go from the average American who respects I'm sure the US constitution, who believes that their country should be going in a different direction. Where is the outrage at this point in time?

Morris: Well, what you have is you've got- that's a Neo-conservative position to support the [Mujaheddin Khalgh Organization, MKO] MEK and that's why Neo-con advocates like [lawyer and former US Senator] Rick Santorum and Newt Gingrich pushing that.

And if you go back to Newt Gingrich's position on the Iraq war you can hear a call into the American broadcast program C-span book TV and you can go to the website tinyurl.com/NewtandIsrael and that's from the Neoconzionistthreat.com Euro and you can hear my call for Newt Gingrich.

He was basically in with these same Neo-conservatives pushing the bogus fraudulent weapons of mass destruction Intel quote to get us into Iraq quagmire and to see him doing similar to get us into Iran for Israel and the Neo-conservative agenda- it's no surprise to me.

You've also got to realize he was on the CNN recently with the Wolf Blitzer who is former AIPAC newsletter editor and he also wrote for the Jerusalem Post putting forward the bogus representation that Iran had threatened to wipe Israel off the map.

That was fraudulent. The Iranian president never did that. He said if the current regime in Israel continues to repress the Palestinians like it does that regime will fade from the pages of history like the Soviet Union did.