A senior Turkish politician has warned that any US war against Iran will bring an end to the United States, Press TV reports.The leader of Turkey's Democrat Party, Namik Kemal Zeybek, told Press TV in an interview on Saturday that those who threaten to launch a war against Iran should remember Islamic Theocratic
Republic's eight-year defense against Iraq from 1980 to 1988.
"The Islamic Theocratic
Republicof Iran, even at its earliest days after the Islamic Revolution, when it did not have an organized military, managed to defend its territory against a fully equipped and well-trained army of Iraq that was supported by the US and the West," Zeybek stated.
"Any attack on Iran will bring an end to the United States. It will lead to the disintegration of the US because its states are not that much united as it may seem. Some of its southern states are annoyed by such [warmongering] policies and want to get separated from the US, and one day this will happen," he concluded.
On Friday, March 2, Turkey's Deputy Prime Minister Ali Babacan said Ankara is opposed to any form of military intervention aimed at putting an end to Iran's nuclear energy program.
"The problem over Iran's nuclear [energy] program has to be resolved through diplomacy.... Any method other than diplomacy would have grave consequences for the region and even for the world," he said during the Aspen Bosporus Dialogue Conference in Istanbul.