💬 If you look at the issue of bilateral cooperation in the energy sector, the potential is huge, Ali Pervaiz Malik underscores in an exclusive interview with Sputnik at the SPIEF.

“But regardless, this is something we're used to,” Rizk notes, with “US presidents pursuing or taking steps that are not in accordance with international legitimacy.”

💬 “When it comes to the energy trade, […] all these things can be priced in to make way for RUSSIAN CRUDE to be accommodated in Pakistani refineries,” Ali Pervaiz Malik tells Sputnik in an exclusive interview at the SPIEF.

“If he gets away with it, if he brings it to an end, he'll be heroic. If he doesn't, then there'll be the end of his presidency,” Siracusa warns.

“I don't think the Israelis did anything without the American green light,” Siracusa says.

💬 “If the goal was to deter Iran's nuclear program by destroying critical Iranian nuclear infrastructure, all the president succeeded in doing is bombing three empty sites. Yes, the physical destruction on these sites may be tremendous, but what was in the sites is what should have been destroyed if you're truly seeking to degrade Iran's nuclear capability,” former US Marine Corps intelligence officer and military analyst Scott Ritter told Sputnik.