New Delhi, March 1 -- As tensions escalate in West Asia following Israeli and US strikes on Iran, Air Marshal Sanjeev Kapoor (Retd) on Saturday said the conflict had been building up for months and was not an abrupt development.

Speaking to ANI on the Iran-Israel conflict, retired Air Marshal Kapoor said, "This was building up for the last about six months or so. The Iranian public has come on streets in January asking for regime change because of very high inflation in Iran."

"Americans have already in place the son of the previous Shah of Iran, whom they want to bring back into Iran. With the degraded air defence and the bases which they struck last year, they felt that now is the time to attack Iran and the general public, which is a...