Former National security adviser to US President Barack Obama, James Jones on CNN's State of the Union Sunday, warned of Tehran's role in uprisings in the Middle East, saying:
He added that chaos reigning in the region is something the Iranian government is "reasonably happy with.""You can bet that Iran is affecting virtually everything and trying to play in every one of these countries where we’re having some difficulties … Iran is out there agitating things.”
“(Iran) is flying under the radar right now because, you know, you don’t hear too much about their nuclear program because everyone else is focused elsewhere”.
“The danger is that Yemen now will become a safe haven for terrorist organizations like al Qaida, I think proactive engagement is much more economical than waiting until it, you know metastasizes, then you have another Afghanistan or something like that. The good news is I think we know a lot about where these organizations are going. The question is what do we do about it and when.”