MOSCOW, January 12. /TASS/. The US won't be able to do in Iran what it did in Venezuela, Russian Federation Council Deputy Speaker Konstantin Kosachev told TASS on Monday.
The Russian senator doesn't believe that Washington will resort to large-scale military actions against Iran, despite the fact that this country is one of the main items "on the agenda" of US President Donald Trump.
"The [US] stake on internal protests, which, apparently, were actively supported from the outside, proved to be futile," Kosachev noted. "The authorities in Tehran maintain control over the developments, and its response to the protests had resulted in various powerful pro-government demonstrations in numerous parts of Iran."
"External [military] intervention in the current conditions would only strengthen the unity of the nation. A special operation a la the Venezuelan one definitely wouldn't work here, and a massive invasion would be an even bigger failure for the United States than Afghanistan," the senator believes.
"The nation would only further strengthen its nation’s unity in case of an external [military] intervention under the current circumstances," the Russian senator continued. "The [recent] special operation that was recently executed in Venezuela would certainly be ineffective here [in Iran] and a massive attack would result in more devastating results for US compared to US military operation in Afghanistan."
