Trump seeks a way out of the war in Iran amid rising tensions

Donald Trump is running out of narrative to continue the war in Iran and shows signs of looking for a way to get off the adventure with the lowest possible political cost. But at this point it’s not going to be easy for him. This Saturday, in an attempt that smacks of desperation to limit one of the consequences of the offensive that began on February 28 with Israel, the Secretary of the Treasury, our well-known Scott Bessent, announced the lifting of sanctions on oil from the Persian country for a month, while making progress in “unpunished” Russia and Belarus from measures dictated within the framework of the conflict in Ukraine. With black gold exceeding $120 a barrel and the blow to the gas plants in the Persian Gulf, the concern of the tenant of the White House is huge in the face of the inflation that is already manifesting in the United States. An issue that could prove catastrophic in their fight not to end up crushed in the November midterm elections. But Tehran has already warned that “it has no crude oil reserves or surpluses to supply other international markets,” according to the respective portfolio minister, Saman Goidousi. To make matters worse, Europe returned kindness for the rudeness with Ukraine and when asked to help open the Strait of Hormuz, they responded that this is not their war. In other words, it will take care of itself, so the real estate magnate accused them of being cowards. To all this, the Hebrew Minister of Defense, Israel Katz, promised “a significant increase in joint attacks” against key infrastructures of the Persian country. Which contradicts the explicit desire of his ally to lower a change before everything gets worse.

It was a rather complicated week for trump which is realizing that Iran is not an easy nut to crack. But the worst thing is that the uncalculated resistance of the Persians must be compounded by the uninformed actions of Benjamin Netanyahu’s government, which does not hesitate to put its partner in trouble in order to achieve its objectives. It is becoming more and more evident that they are not the same.

This became clear when it was confirmed this Wednesday that the secretary of the Supreme National Security Council, Ali Larijani, had been killed along with the head of the Basij force, Golamreza Soleimani, in a bombing that Israel sold as precision, although there are indications that the “collateral damage” is estimated at hundreds of civilian deaths. Larijani, an intellectual with a doctorate in Western philosophy and specialized in Emmanuel Kant, was the best suited to establish a possible peace agreement. But Netanyahu’s strategy was never to bring peace, but to create chaos or plunge the country into civil war. This speculation is not part of a biased analysis, but was part of the statement by the Trump administration’s resigning Counterterrorism Director, Joe Kent. The man, a veteran of the Iraq war, where he fought for two decades, gave an extensive interview to journalist Tucker Carlson in which he agreed with all the “MAGA repentants” that United States foreign policy is written in Tel Aviv and responds to Israeli interests, not American ones. He recalled, then, that Secretary of State Marco Rubio himself had admitted in a message on March 2: “We knew that there was going to be an Israeli action, we knew that this would precipitate an attack against American forces, and we knew that, if we did not act preventively before they launched those attacks, we would suffer more casualties.”

In his public letter of resignation, Kent had already announced that he preferred to leave office so as not to be complicit in a war that will only deepen American decline. “Iran is not a threat to the United States,” said the man whose task was to monitor the threats against his country. He elaborated on considerations about the divergences between the objectives of Israel and the United States and urged to recover the campaign determination of the 47th president not to get involved in “stupid wars.” It didn’t take long for the president to lash out at the resigning official, which they also destroyed on social media. Anyway, it is clear that the bullet entered the White House, because when the next day Israeli forces bombed the South Pars gas field, a gigantic exploitation that is shared with Qatar below the Persian Gulf, he sent a clear message from his social network Truth apologizing for the Iranian response against the Qatari CNG plant and reprimanding the Israelis.

“Israel, enraged by what happened in the Middle East, violently attacked an important facility known as the South Pars Gas Field in Iran (…) The United States was completely unaware of this attack, and Qatar was in no way involved, nor had it any idea that it was going to happen. Unfortunately, Iran was unaware of this, as well as any other relevant information about the attack on South Pars, and unjustifiably attacked a part of the plant (…) in Qatar,” he wrote. What did you mean by saying that Israel is angry with what happened in the Middle East? Surely because Iran got its defensive strategy right from day one and despite the selective assassinations of its leaders, which began with that of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, it wreaks havoc in Tel Aviv and Haifa after having disabled radars and interceptor systems with its missiles and drones. At the last minute it was confirmed that the city of Dimona, where Israel is developing its nuclear plan – without international supervision – had also received missile hits.

The Iranian attacks also hit US bases in the region and it is more than likely that the aircraft carrier USS Gerald Ford, the largest in the world and which is seen engulfed in flames in posts on the networks. The official information is that there was a fire in the main laundry during operations in the Red Sea and he had to head to the Souda Bay naval base, on the island of Crete. Damage was also reported to two F-35 aircraft hit by Iranian missiles. Minister Katz, meanwhile, said in a message that the assassination of any Iranian officer had been authorized “once a ‘circle of objectives’ has been closed on him, without the need for additional approval.” Another challenge for Donald Trump. «