Mumbai, April 8 -- MJ Akbar, Former Union MoS for External Affairs said that Iran's nuclear program is the eye of the storm in the US-Iran war, and if the ceasefire was announced without taking it into consideration, it's a hoax.

Akbar, while talking to ANI, said that the war was an exercise in political hysteria for purposes that are not fully comprehensible.

"I do not believe that a ceasefire could have been announced without a broad agreement on key factors. Obviously, Iran's nuclear program has to be one of the major factors, because if you don't have agreement on that, then this is a hoax. The point of fact is that one day before this war began, America and Iran had agreed even on the language, which leaves the world perplexed as t...