TEHRAN (FNA)- A senior Iranian political commentator says US and Russia are in decline and now regional powers are rising and reining in world developments, stressing that both Moscow and Washington are vying to reclaim their previous position in the international scene.
"…the United States is not anymore a superpower and it is in a dramatic decline and that is what Donald Trump is picking the point,” Dr. Abu-Mohammad Asgarkhani told Basirat Center for Political Studies in a debate on US-Russia relations.
He added, "…the term superpower is not anymore relevant to our international system and, to be frank, the international system; its structure, its logic and principles and even more distribution of capability in the international system is going to change. So,the term superpower should be replaced by big powers or great powers rather than superpowers. So, we do not have any more one superpower; we do not have two superpowers, but we have great powers like China, Russia, US and the coming regional powers as well.”
Even Russia is in decline and now regional powers are rising and reining in world developments, Dr. Asgarkhani stressed, saying both Russia and US are vying to reclaim their previous position in the international scene.
The Iranian professor downplayed reports that Washington and Moscow are moving towards an ultimate conflict, saying that both sides have always pursued a "cooperation-conflict” approach.
"But the point is that the Russian strategy has been a kind of cooperation-conflict with the United States. So cooperation and conflict theoretically generate and regenerate each other. They cooperate together and then they have conflict. It’s the mater of continuity with cooperation and conflict. I mean their cooperation leads to conflict and they try to resolve their problems and they cooperate with that. For example, while the Russian forces fight in the Middle East, you see that the American and the Japanese and the Russian astronauts cooperate and on space regime and they safely landed and they cooperating under the name of space regime. So, on different issues in every nook and cranny of the planet, you can see they have cooperation,” Dr. Asgarkhani said.
Relations between Washington and Moscow are at their lowest point since the end of the Cold War in 1991, largely due to the Ukraine crisis. The US and its allies accuse Moscow of sending troops into eastern Ukraine in support of the pro-Russian forces. Moscow has long denied involvement in Ukraine's crisis.
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Poster Comment:
The egg head is a bit myopic in not seeing Ukraine crisis is due to Zionists attempt to take over Ukraine's political control to provide Israel's Khazars with a second homeland; that US is used as a crutch by Israel while stealing Palestinian lands, so Russia-US spat is largely due to Israel's expansionist modality.