New Democrat refuses to say if Iran is a US adversary
Adam Hawamy, a New Jersey Democrat elected to the House of Representatives last week, refused to explicitly say that Iran is an adversary of the United States.
Hawamy, a plastic surgeon and former US Army doctor, had a controversial interview with CNN’s Pamela Brown on Tuesday and repeatedly avoided a “yes or no” answer on whether he considered Iran an enemy.
“Do you consider Iran as the adversary and Israel as the ally of the United States?” » Brown asked first.
In response, Hawamy said: “Well, what I see now is that we were pushed into this war by Israel. That doesn’t help the Americans. The Americans didn’t ask for it. It’s illegal. It’s immoral. And at this point, I think the United States and the Iranians want this war to end.”
Once again, Brown asked, “Do you view Iran as the adversary?”
“I see that we made them fight, and so I think we both need to step back and ask ourselves: Is this helping either of us?” Hawamy said.
For the third time, Brown asked if Iran was an adversary, to which Brown replied: “We are making adversaries when we should be making friends.”
That’s when Brown mentioned that Iranians have been chanting “Death to America” for decades.
“We have also been saying the death of Iran for decades, and so what we have to do is resort to diplomacy,” Hawamy said.
For the fourth time, Brown was asked if he considered Iran an adversary. This time, Hawamy said he favors an approach similar to Barack Obama’s when he was president.
“I see that we push Iran into the fight when we have the influence to bring them to the table. And we did that under the Obama administration, and we could do it again if we use diplomacy, our influence and our economic power, not just military, to create friends in the region, to put pressure on them as well and to bring peace to the region if we want to,” Hamawy said.
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