JAKARTA - Political analyst Atlas Global Strategies and former Israeli diplomat, Shaiel Ben-Ephraim, revealed the timing of the attack on Iran is related to domestic politics in the US.
"There is almost no strategic reason behind it," Ben-Ephraim told Al Jazeera, Thursday, March 5.
According to him, the timing of the attack on Iran is a diversion of public attention from the case of sex predator Jeffrey Epstein, which dragged Trump's name and many of his colleagues.
"Trump's timing for agreeing [to a policy of attacking Iran] is the worst ever, some of the worst in the early part of his presidency that I can remember. And there are signs that the economy is going to get worse, so he really needs a distraction from that [the Epstein case] in the form of a war," he said.
"The motive" behind the attack on Iran, he continued, can be seen from the search method related to the Epstein case on Google, whose search numbers have dropped drastically.
Ben-Ephraim views, for the time being, the US-Iranian attack on Iran will be a public consumption in the US because the impact kills many casualties and shakes the geopolitical stability of the Middle East.
"And if you look at Google searches for the Epstein file, the numbers have plummeted since then [the war] started. So, at least for a while, it worked. It took up Congress' time and media time," he said.
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