Four words – “United States Bombardea Iran” – are enough to summarize what the president of the United States, Donald Trump, did this Saturday night in Washington, early in Tehran: spray more than four decades of containment in the tense relations between the United States and Iran. Islamic – announced, like so many other transcendentals, in the social network owned by the Republican leader, Truth – not only introduces the United States into an era of uncertainties in the unstable stage of the Middle East, also marks a point of non -return in Trump’s relationship with interventionism abroad.
Washington resolved the doubts about his support for the Israel War against Iran with a bombing, ordered without the prior approval of the Congress, of three Iranian nuclear bases already famous: Fordo, Natanz and Isfahan. After a while, Trump described the attack in a speech before the four -minute nation from the White House of “spectacular military success,” and said the facilities had been destroyed.
The president made one of the main arguments of his campaign, a promise that has just breached the most spectacular way possible. The gesture pays the terrain for a schism in the Maga Movement (Make America Great Again), which although its waist has proven to adapt to the changes in the idea of its leader, traditionally has one of its red lines in geopolitical isolationism.
In another proof of the long list of his contradictions, Trump – who in his inauguration in January said: “We will measure our success not only for the battles that we win, but also for the wars that we end and, perhaps the most important thing, for the wars in which we never get involved” – it seems to have prioritized this Saturday its fascination for the military demonstrations of strength about the idea of not creating problems America First). Or perhaps we must attribute the success to the ability to influence the Voluble Trump of the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, who unilaterally launched an attack against the enrichment capabilities of Uranium of Iran on June 13. This Saturday, Netanyahu said that “History will remember President Trump” as someone who “acted to deny the most dangerous regime in the world, the most dangerous weapon in the world.”
Be that as it may, the decision of the US president, criticized in recent days by some of the main figures of the Maga world – of the National Populist ideologist Steve Bannon to the announcer Ultra Tucker Carlson – was put in question as soon as the attacks were known by some members of the Republican Party in Congress. Representative by Kentucky, who criticized, together with other prominent Democratic figures, that the US president did not seek the prior approval of the Capitol.
Although the general tonic among Republican congressmen was the closure of rows. Many celebrated the intervention in Iran, giving by good positions of the neoconservative faction of the party, a tribe that Trump has made one of the favorite whites of their attacks since its irruption in politics.
This Saturday he fulfilled, after all, one of the old aspirations of those hawks: bombing Iran. It is tempting to imagine what Senator John McCain would have said of this script, which in the presidential campaign that faced Obama in 2007 was sought a problem when suggested, when he altered the letter of the classic of The Beach Boys Barbara Ann, an attack on Iran (“Bomb, Bomb, Bomb, Bomba will bomb”).
Also for those who in Washington are not so old as to remember that (or even that Trump took the country out of the agreement with Tehran reached by his first predecessor, Barack Obama), in the background resonates the echo of a conviction that has been taking shape in the capital, promoted by politicians, analysts and journalists. According to that theory, a change in the Ayatolás regime. Weakened after almost that some of Tehran’s main allies in the region, Hezbollah in Lebanon, to the fallen regime of Syria, the change could be closer than ever. The defenders of the attack have been selling the idea that the opportunity of Israel’s offensive against Tehran, unilaterally launched on June 12, could not miss.
One of the most critical voices of Trumpism against the interventionism of past administrations, the vice president, JD Vance, appeared to the right of the American leader when he went to the nation in a short and forceful speech from the Eastern Hall of the White House. On the other side, there were Pere Hegesh, Secretary of Defense, and Marco Rubio, Secretary of State. Trump argued that the military operation, to which he dedicated his usual hyperboles (“spectacular”, “brilliant”) was not a military campaign, but “the end”, except if they will go, “the bully of the Middle East”, he fells to end his nuclear desire. Or peace or catastrophe, Trump warned to the Tehran regime.
It was not clear on Saturday night in Washington what will happen in the next 48 decisive hours in the loop that Trump decided to kick. Will you climb the conflict after an attack that has not caused? Or will it sit at the negotiating table with a new mood with the envoys of the United States? Will this summer solstice be remembered as the beginning of another catastrophe in the Middle East for a country that has not yet forgotten the images of its soldiers returning inside coffins of the distant front of Iraq?
