Cuban ex-President Fidel Castro wrote in an article out on Thursday that it was unlikely that US President Barack Obama would be re-elected without first letting the US military or Israel launch a nuclear attack on Iran.
Mr Castro, 83, convalescing away from government since 2006, writes regular columns for Cuban media commenting on world events. “Is it possible,” Mr Castro wondered, for Mr Obama to be re-elected “without the Pentagon of the state of Israel... Use nuclear weapons against Iran?” Mr Castro wrote.
Mr Castro described Israel’s interception of aid ships bound for the Gaza Strip as “Nazi fascist fury,” and that Israeli commandos that boarded the ships fired “frenetically” into the aid workers. “Mr Obama can deliver hundreds of speeches trying to smooth over contradictions that are irreconcilable with truth, dream with the magic of his well-articulated speeches, while he makes concessions” to unethical people and groups, Mr Castro wrote.
Mr Obama “can paint worlds of fantasy... That unscrupulous advisers, knowing his tendencies, plant in his head,” Mr Castro wrote.