“Any attack on Iran would be catastrophic for the region,” said Dr. Maria Sultan, the Director-General of the UK-based South Asian Strategic Stability Institute.
The Pakistani political analyst says any military action against Iran over its nuclear energy program would entail catastrophic consequences on the wider region, Press TV reports.
“Any attack on Iran would be catastrophic for the region,” said Maria Sultan, the director general of the UK-based South Asian Strategic Stability Institute (SASSI) in a keynote speech during a visit to the Bulgarian capital, Sofia, a Press TV correspondent reported on Thursday. “And will you defeat Iran after that? I don’t think so. You cannot take away a technology which is based on a nuclear resource. You might take away a facility, but you won’t take away a resource,” she added.
Sultan, who is also a senior advisor to Pakistan’s defense ministry, went on to say that Iran should be allowed to pursue its peaceful nuclear activities without hindrance.
“Iran should be given the right which is guaranteed under its commitments under the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT),” she noted. More
