Petroleum facility attack "President is having difficulty responding" Former US government official September 21 11:09
Former US officials in charge of the Middle East policy at the White House on the U.S. response to an attack on oil-related facilities in Saudi Arabia, There is an idea that I want to avoid this war, and I am struggling to deal with it. "
Kenneth Pollack, a conservative think tank “American Enterprise Research Institute” who was in charge of Middle East policy at the NSC = National Security Council under the Clinton administration, interviewed NHK on the 20th.
In this, Mr. Polak said that the US government has not yet determined what kind of forces have attacked the oil-related facilities. "I think Iran should have done both in the US and Saudi Arabia. I'm not sure what to do, rather than having it. "
As for the future response, while attacking Iran's oil-related facilities and military facilities is one of the options, “I fear that oil prices will rise further and Iran is likely to fight back.” As a result, the view that the possibility of military attacks is low at the moment.
On top of that, he pointed out that "President Trump wants to eat cake, but wants to keep it," in other words, is trying to realize two contradictory things. " He expressed his view that he wanted to avoid negotiations and tried to resolve it through negotiations and was struggling to deal with it.
“The goal of President Trump is to bring Iran to the table of negotiations by strengthening economic sanctions and make a new agreement to replace the Iran nuclear agreement, but in reality the goal is farther away.” He criticized the Trump administration's Iranian policy.