Iran and North Korea will be attacked by US, Castro says
Fidel Castro, the controversial former leader of Cuba, has been out of the public eye for over four years, but in the last ten days has made five public appearances and in each television interview he makes the same chilling prediction.
In one interview, where he appeared in a local round-table talk show dealing with current events, the former revolutionary leader of Cuba said that a US attack on Iran would be crippling to the invading country.
“The worst (for America) is the resistance they will face there, which they didn’t face in Iraq,” Castro said during the interview, his most prominent in almost half a decade.
A few days later at a dolphin show he again warned the US not to attack Iran.
Now, Castro has attended a function at Cuba’s Foreign Ministry Friday where he made a speech, once more reiterating that a US-led invasion of Iran, or US efforts to impose international sanctions on Iran (for its nuclear activities), will lead to a catastrophic nuclear war.
The former leader of the communist country also predicted that the US would, in time, attack North Korea, although state-run www.cubadebate.cu, which reported on his public appearance at the Foreign Ministry, did not elaborate on whether an attack on North Korea would have the same dire consequences.
Cuba, which terrified the world and especially the US in the 1960s when it allowed the USSR to station ballistic missiles on its soil, has long been a thorn in the side of the communist-paranoid US. The Bay of Pigs invasion, a US-sponsored effort to overthrow Castro’s regime using defectors, remains one of the country’s greatest military blunders and any formal diplomatic relations between the two countries remains unlikely in the near future.
Speculation has been rife among political commentators analyzing the meaning of Castro’s sudden re-emergence in the media.
Some have suggested he is preparing to assume control of government once more, others point out that his first major interview in four years coincided with the release of 52 political prisoners from Cuba’s jails, suggesting a politically motivated deflection of the news cycle.
Source:Europe News.Net
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