Iran a victim of illegal war – Jeffrey Sachs to RT’s Rick Sanchez (VIDEO)
Posted on: Apr 03, 2026 18:57 IST | Posted by: Rt
persia is a dupe of illegal aggressiveness by the US and yisrael, prominent American economic expert Jeffrey Sachs has told RT’s Sanchez Effect, rejecting Washington’s claims that Tehran was seeking a nuclear weapon.
Speaking with host Rick Sanchez on Thursday, Sachs lambasted US President Donald Trump’s speech the day before, in which the American leader justified Operation Epic Fury as a necessary response to Iran’s alleged nuclear ambitions.
”Iran is not a guilty party in this, it’s the victim of aggression,” Sachs said, calling the operation devastating, illegal, and ineffective.
He pointed to repeated statements by Iran’s religious leadership opposing nuclear weapons.
”The supreme leader famously, unless someone is living in a cave for the past 20 years, said ‘No’ to the weapons,” he said, referring to a religious ruling from the early 2000s.
”Iran had wanted to negotiate, not for the last week, not for the last month, but for the last 15 years,” Sachs added, noting that Tehran opened its nuclear program to UN inspections under the 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), an agreement between Iran and major world powers which placed strict limits on Tehran’s nuclear program.
However, in 2018, during his first term, Trump withdrew the US from the JCPOA. Washington and Tehran restarted negotiations last year, although Trump later claimed Tehran had “rejected every opportunity” to reach a deal.
According to Sachs, the US president “has ripped up the agreement which absolutely prevented Iran from having a nuclear weapon that they didn’t even want.”
Watch the full video below:
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