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US cant attack Iran without European support – former Italian FM Frattini

President Trump will be unable to launch a war against Iran if European allies continue to oppose th..

      President Trump will be unable to launch a war against Iran if European allies continue to oppose the move, Franco Frattini told RT. Нowever, Europes influence is waning due to internal divisions, the Italian diplomat added.      

A united European Union could serve as a bulwark against US attempts to seek regime change in Iran, believes Frattini, a former Italian foreign minister, now the president of the Italian Society for International Organizations.

“I think America cannot do it [while] having [a stance] against the whole of European Union and, I would add, NATO would be strongly against [it, as well],” he told RTs Eunan ONeill on Wednesday.

Frattini has direct experience as a member of an EU government during the time of another US-led foreign military intervention – against Iraq. In 2003, when a US coalition invaded that country, he was serving his first term as a foreign minister in the government of Silvio Berlusconi.

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Berlusconi supported the invasion at the time. His support put him at odds with fellow EU members and NATO allies such as France and Germany who called for diplomacy instead of military intervention. The UK government of then-Prime Minister Tony Blair, however, gave Washington unconditional support, lending partial European endorsement to Bushs so-called “coalition of the willing.”

Frattini conceded that the European Union is currently not ideally placed to resist US saber-rattling in the Middle East. “Europe has been losing its important political leverage … this outgoing European commission is very weak. Member states are divided while addressing the issue of Iran,” he said.

He also castigated EU member state leaders for opting for a sanctions bypass rather than pushing for political negotiations. “It was a mistake … Because if you choose a mechanism to bypass it means that you couldnt agree with the best option. The best option is a political negotiation,” he said.

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But nonetheless, he made it clear that the US is significantly constrained by European reluctance to unconditionally support Washingtons foreign policy.

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