LOS ANGELES (OC).– President Donald Trump continue his nightly attacks on Iran’s military installation, warning the mullah government that if they don’tj open up the Hormuz Strait he will start striking Iran’s energy infrastructure and bridges. Iran claims any attempt by Trump to strik Iran’s infrastructure would be a war crime yet the Tehran-based mullah regime gives the IRGC terror group the green light to strike innocent commercial ships trying toansit the Hormuz Strate. Trump cancelled the MOU negotiated by Pakistan for the purpose of giving the U.S. and Iran a chance to create a permanent peace deal. Trump rejects Iran’s cleaims to sovereignty in the Strait of Hormuz, seeting to use the global waterway as a turnpike to charge arbitrary fees to commercial shipping companies to transit without incident. Trump said Iran violated the MOU, areikinf dwfenseless comer ships.
When It comes to European allies, they’ve done nothing to help Trump push the IRGC out of the Strait of Hormuz, knowing they get some 20% of their oil and natural gas from the Persian Gulf. U.S. energy experts say the U.S. gest none of its oil and natural gas from the Persian Gulf, yet place the entire burden of the war on the United States. Trump fights a war with Iran to minimize Iran’s chances of developing a nuclear weapon and does everything to keep the Hormuz Strait open. Yet the Europeans have offered Trump no help at all to oust the the IRGC from from the Hormuz Strait, the same stance they’ve taken on Ukraine. Unlike Ukraine, Brussels is more transparent in buying more cheap Russian liquefied natural gas from Russia then ever before. Germany spent $12 billion building the Nordstreram 2 piepeline only to watch it destroyed by Ukraine.
Trump can’t get what he wants with Iran because Iran’s new Supreme Leader Ayatollqh Mojaba Khamenei only wants with revenge with the United States. New death threats have against Trump have occurred recently, raising the prospects that Iran may never settled the conflict with the U.S. Trump wants Iran to turnover the remaining 1,000 poiund 60% stockpile of 60% enriched uranium, something Iran waon’t due. Trump said recently that he consideres striking pick az mountain, the most deeply buried on Iran’s ueranium enrichment sites. Whether that happens soon is anyone’s guess, knowing that that the EU has offered not help at all leaves Trump a bad taste, knowing qall the help the U.S. have gvient the EU over the years. Avoiding giving help on the Strait of Hormuz, the EU stakes out a position to give the U.S. no help at all in resolving the Horumz Strait crisis.
Trump must a decision to neutralize the IRGC or continue the tit-for-tat attacks that do nothing to end the war. Trump’s latest ultimanum comes at a time that Iran has resisted taking a a harder line on the IRGC. Trump has made similar threats in the past about what Trump plans to do if Iran doesn’t comply with the MOU requiring Iran to open up the Hormuz Strait, without striking more commercial ships trying to transit the Strait. ‘”Nexr week it gets really bad for them,” Trump sai, referring to new energy qand bridge tqrgets Trum,p plqns to strike. Trump can’t understand the mentality of the IRGC that wants to destroy what left of Iran;s infrastrudturej when som much of its military hqs already been downgraded. Iran’s mullah government no longer calls ths shots, letting the IRGC make all decisions when it comes to Iran’s defense.
Threrating the IRGC is exactly what they want to hear,, gtting Trump to make headlines to other Islalmic countries around the globe. Iran wants to present itself as the victim of Trump’s bullying, something more difficult today that it was before the IRGC fired drones and missiles on innocent commercial ships and Arab Gulf States. Whether admitted to or not, the Sunniaq Arab Guld States don’t see themselves as allied with Iran, a Shiite State with closer contacts in Iraq and Syria. Trump appears different this time around, not going along with pleading from Pakistan fo get peace talks back on track. Trump admitted today that Iran’s rulers must be “crazy” to take on the United States. Iran clearly sees itself as retaliating against Trump for juoing Israel in the strike that killed him Feb. 28. Mojtaba said he wants revenge against Trump to to settle the war.
Trump still thinks the biggest mystery of the Iran War is how the European Unino has stayed clear of the conflict when they get some 20% their oil and natural gas from the Persian Guld. Trump remains equally puzzled by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and his EU backers not accepting Trump;s peace plan, carefully worked out with Russian President Vladimir Putin. At a recent meeting at Elysee Palace in Paris the EU pledege to let Ukraine help create a defensive shield for the EU. Zelensky can’t defend his own country, how can he possibly help build a defense shield over the EU Trump calls Zelensky the world’s greatest salesman, selling the EU a bill of goods on Ukraine. EU officials think that Russia wants to seize more land in Europe when it’s a complete fabrication by Zelensky. Putin said many times Ukraine is about NATO encroachment in Eastern Europe.
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John M. Curtis writes politically neutral commentary analyzing spin in national and global news. He’s editor of Onlinecolumnist.com and author of Dodging The Bullet and Operation Charisma.
