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Echoing the comments
of Liberal Democrats leader Vladimir Zhirinovsky, another Russian MP
has gone public with his contention that the recent Muslim riots were a staged
US provocation in order to swing public opinion in Europe beind supporting an
attack on Iran.
Gennady Zyuganov told a news conference that the publication of the offensive
cartoons was a "well thought-out major provocation using newspapers and
magazines to aggravate the situation, the relationship between the European
countries and the Muslim world.”
Zyuganov (pictured below) said that the riots could only benefit the US and
that they were "not advantageous for Europe but those who have raised this
hysteria, insulted religious feelings of one and a half billion of Muslims,
are pushing Europe into the arms of the American military clique.”
Last week, Vladimir Zhirinovsky said that the publication of the offensive cartoons
was a planned psyop on the part of the US and aimed to “provoke a row between
Europe and the Islamic world”.
“It will all end with European countries thanking the United States and
paying, and giving soldiers,” said Zhirinovsky.
Although the riots have largely calmed, the build-up to a military
strike on Iran is intense, with newspapers
today reporting that the Pentagon had significantly advanced in
its planning for bombing raids and submarine-launched ballistic missile attacks
on the country.
