I know it’s belly-laughable to use the words ‘facts’ and ‘Trump’ in the one breath, but hell, I’m going to try.
The American president has claimed that US planes have attacked and destroyed Iran’s nuclear capacity. That was last year. This year, we know he’s done no such thing. Andit’s hypocrisy on steroids for the leader of the only country in the world ever to use a nuclear bomb traipsing across the globe to attack a country because it MIGHT, one day, become the possessor of a nuclear bomb. Pass the smelling salts, Virginia. They’re over there beside the shit detector.
Before Trump’s more recent assault on Iran, where he kidded himself that he’d have total victory by slaughtering the Ayatollah and his Cabient, Iranians were divided. There was a group of people in considerable numbers demanding a loosening of clerical restrictions. According to reports, this was dealt with harshly by the authorities. However, once Trump showed his murderous intentions by the murder of the Ayotolla and others in authority – the defence minister , the country’s top military officer, the head of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps – Iran closed ranks and a sturdy unity found ways to stall the stupid American in his tracks. It was a bit like Easter 1916: only when the leaders of the Rising had been executed did the Irish people take to arms.
Finally, Trump the Fool ignited regional and economic risks in the Middle East. Arab states which had American bases ( you knew about them, didn’t you? The US has them in countries across the globe) found themselves being hit by Iranian missiles. They hadn’t expexted this treatment when they’d put down the welcome mat for the Yanks.
And we mustn’t forget the Strait of Hormuz, which is half-way to paralysing the world economy.
Put up your hand if you didn’t feel a jolt of schadenfreude when you saw Trump sink to his upper thighs in a bog of his own making? Right. Everyone,then. Well done, Donald.
Trump is now having public disagreements with Netanyahu. That tells me Iran is winning the war.