The Trump Administration continues, in the joint effort of the US and Israel against Iran, with its triumphalist messages about a military intervention that is leaving an economic drain on the Iranian response, raising the cost of a barrel of Brent above $100 and threatening to trigger inflation even more, just 9 months before the midterm elections –midterm– in the US.
But this time, in the midst of complaints about the lack of countries and/or NATO partners to accompany him in a campaign, he has given a strange boost to Israel, putting his hand on the fact that he would never use nuclear weapons against Iran. It is worth remembering that Tel Aviv has never admitted that it has a nuclear arsenal. That is, Trump has assured that the Government of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu would never use it against Iran.
It is also worth remembering that the justification for the US and Israeli attacks against Iran was because both countries say – without any proof – that Tehran was two weeks away from obtaining the nuclear bomb, a recurring issue that Netanyahu has been warning about for two decades and that clashes with the version that Washington and Tel Aviv.
Trump promises that Israel will not use nuclear weapons against Iran (to prevent it from having nuclear weapons)
In reality, these words from Trump connect with a scene that is reminiscent of the first stages of the war, when he had to go out to qualify the words of his Secretary of State, and this would precipitate Iranian attacks against US positions in the Middle East and the Middle East. Hours before, and in statements on a podcast, presidential advisor David Shacks dropped that, with the nuclear option on the table.
Trump, implicitly confirming what international organizations such as the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) calculate, has promised that, to further reaffirm that “Israel would never do that.” By “that” he refers to using any of the 90 nuclear warheads that the aforementioned Swedish peace institute estimates in its reports that the Israeli authorities possess, which have never ratified any international treaty on nuclear matters or allow inspections by the International Atomic Energy Organization (IAEA). The latter, the organization that did warn that Iran was not developing an atomic bomb.
The curious case of the call from “a certain former president” to Trump to support him in the Iran war… that no one alive confirms
Beyond hinting that Israel’s nuclear arsenal is very real, Trump has also assured that he is receiving support for starting the war against Iran. To the point of bragging about having received a call from “a certain former American president” to inform him that the attack against Iran should have started earlier. “He told me, ‘I wish I had done it, I wish I had done it.’ But he didn’t do it. I’m doing it,” Trump said, without giving any clues as to who he might be referring to.
Taking into account that, currently, there are only four former US presidents who are still alive – Bush Jr., Bill Clinton, Barack Obama and Joe Biden -, the offices and/or entourage of those four former presidents have come out to deny that they were the ones Trump spoke about. In fact, the case of the advisor to the only living former Republican president, George W. Bush, who has declared in the NBC that he and the one who put him in Iran “have not been in contact.”
