He is breaking his word. A new war has started and he will have to face what he promised would never happen, the reception of coffins of American soldiers wrapped in their flag, fallen in combat. However, this contradiction, which causes sting within his own party, the Republicans, and is not liked in the polls, the president of the United States spends his hours calling the media and boasting about what he is doing. In short, there are weeks of war left, but the US and its ally, Israel, are going to turn everything around.
This morning, he picked up the phone to call , in that tendency of his that avoids press conferences or official statements, and stated that the attacks in which the Iranian supreme leader died, last Saturday, also ended the lives of Washington’s candidates to stage a transition.
In his interview, the tycoon said that they had identified possible candidates to take control of Iran after the death of Khamenei, confirmed on Sunday, by Tehran, but they died in the campaign of joint attacks with Israel to behead the regime. “The attack was so successful that we took out most of the candidates,” Trump said in the call with ABC News.
“It won’t be anyone we thought because they are all dead. Even the second and third place are dead,” confessed Trump, who in a speech on Saturday asked the Iranian people to take power on their own.
According to state television Press TV, Saturday’s bombings killed the commander-in-chief of the Revolutionary Guard, General Mohamad Pakpur, the secretary of the Defense Council, Ali Shamjani, the chief of the General Staff of the Iranian Armed Forces, General Abdorrahim Mousavi, and the Iranian Minister of Defense, Aziz Nasirzadeh.
The president of Iran, and Ali Larijani, head of Security and new strong man of the ayatollah regime, survived.
Delcy, part two?
In another interview, this time with the newspaper Trump has suggested that among “(his) options” for a transition in Iran is the example of Venezuela, where senior officials, including his number two, remain at the country’s political summit after January 3.
“What we did in Venezuela, I think, is the perfect scenario, the perfect one. Everyone kept their jobs except two people,” he said in a telephone interview with the newspaper, alluding to the attack carried out on Caracas on January 3, which resulted in the capture of the Venezuelan leader and the first lady, Cilia Flores, who have remained in a US prison since then.
Asked who he would like to see at the head of the Central Asian country, the White House resident stated that he has “three very good options” but has avoided revealing them: “Let’s finish the job first,” he defended.
Despite this, Trump has proposed that Iranian citizens can mobilize to replace their Government once it is overthrown. “It will depend on them whether they do it or not. They have been talking about it for years, so now they will obviously have a chance,” he said.
On the same day, the American leader gave a series of interviews, including one in the British newspaper ‘Daily Mail’ in which he indicated that the offensive against Iran could last up to four weeks “or less.”
“It has always been a four-week process. We have calculated that it will be more or less four weeks. It has always been a four-week process, so although it is a strong country, a large country, it will take four weeks, or less,” he noted.
The Secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council, Ali Larijani, is pictured on October 9, 2013 in Geneva, Switzerland, while negotiating with the West over its nuclear program.
Jug of cold water
In previous statements on Sunday, the American president maintained that an outstretched hand had already reached him from Tehran to negotiate, predicting a more flexible position on the part of the new leadership of the Islamic Republic. However, the cold water came early this Monday, when the secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council, Ali Larijani, stated that the Islamic republic will not negotiate with the United States.
“We will not negotiate with the United States,” Larijani stated in a brief message published.
“We will not negotiate with the United States”
The message responds not only to Trumo’s words, but to an extra publication by the around an alleged initiative by Larijani to resume talks with Washington.
This information comes after the Omani Foreign Minister, Badr al Busaidi, assured that his Iranian counterpart, Abbas Araqchí, had made him aware of Tehran’s willingness to “any serious effort that contributes to stopping the escalation and restoring stability,” according to the Omani agency ONA. Larijani also wrote in X that “the Iranian nation is defending itself” since “Iran’s Army did not initiate the invasion.”
“Trump has plunged the region into chaos with his false hopes (…) With his delirious actions, he has transformed his slogan “America first” into “Israel first” and has sacrificed American soldiers for Israel’s lust for power,” Larijani added.
Iran continues to receive bombings from Israel since on Sunday the United States and the Jewish state coordinated a joint attack that killed Iran’s supreme leader, Ali Khamenei, and several senior government officials, in addition to leaving more than 200 dead.
For its part, the Islamic Republic has also attacked Israel, as well as countries allied to the United States in the region and that host its military bases, such as Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates.
