Diplomacy on the brink of war: Trump threatens Iran with total annihilation

US President Donald Trump and Iranian leader Hassan Rouhani exchange harsh statements and direct insults.

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After Rouhani said the White House was plagued by “mental retardation,” Trump tweeted a tirade threatening to use “stunning force” against Iran, he writes. with the BBC.

“Any attack against an American target will be responded to by the United States with overwhelming, overwhelming force. In some areas it will be complete destruction,” Donald Trump wrote in his microblogging 25 of June.

The American president accused Iranian leaders of aggressive politics and said that they are not aware of today's realities.

“Iran does not understand kindness and compassion. I never understood. “They, unfortunately, understand force, and the United States has the most powerful army in the world,” Trump added, adding that the “wonderful people of Iran” are suffering because of a government that “spends all the country’s money on terror.”

Screenshot from Twitter / @ realDonaldTrump

Trump's tweet series was a response to Iranian President Hassan Rouhani’s statement he made on national television on Tuesday.

Rouhani sharply criticized Washington’s decision to impose personal sanctions on Iran’s religious leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

“The actions of the White House demonstrate mental retardation,” the Iranian president said.

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Tehran warned that the introduction of new sanctions is blocking the road to a diplomatic resolution of the conflict.

“The Trump administration is destroying all accepted international mechanisms to maintain peace and security in the world,” said Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Mousavi.

Previously, Trump has already threatened the complete destruction of North Korea, if it does not abandon nuclear testing. In 2017, the North Korean media quoted Kim Jong-un, who called Trump an “old-man crazy”.

The exchange of insults in the end did not prevent the leaders of the United States and the DPRK from sitting at the negotiating table.

In the case of Iran, there is no sign of Tehran’s readiness to begin negotiations with Washington.

US National Security Adviser John Bolton said meanwhile that Iran could “walk through the open door” and sit down at the negotiating table with Washington.

Bolton warned that the US is considering “all possible response options” if Tehran fulfills its threat to exceed the limits on the production of enriched uranium laid down in the 2015 agreement of the year.

Sanctions against Iran

24 June Trump announced the introduction of new tough sanctions against Iran, including against the personal office of the country's spiritual leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

The Iranian authorities claim that personal sanctions against Khamenei are meaningless because he does not have any personal condition.

However, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo previously estimated the state of Khamenei at 95 billion dollars, which are stored in his personal fund.

Of these funds, according to Washington, is funded including the activities of the Iranian Guardians of the Islamic Revolution, the Iranian law enforcement agency.

The US Department of the Treasury stated that eight commanders of the Guard also fall under the sanctions.

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Trump's decree deprives Iranian authorities of access to financial resources, and also introduces personal sanctions against persons appointed to certain positions by the Supreme Leader and his office.

The decree is also directed against foreign financial companies that deal with the Iranian regime and those who fall under sanctions.

Head of the Department of Finance Stephen Mnuchin said that by the end of the week, Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Mousavi would also be subject to sanctions.

The Trump administration wants Tehran to begin new negotiations on the Iranian nuclear and missile program and to secure assurances that Iran will not receive nuclear weapons in the future.

At the same time, the Iranian authorities claim that they have no intention to develop nuclear weapons.

Recall in May 2018, US President Donald Trump announced the country's withdrawal from a nuclear deal with Iran, banished to its constant violations by Tehran. The Joint Comprehensive Action Plan (SAPA), signed by Iran, the five permanent members of the UN Security Council (Russia, UK, China, USA, France) and Germany in July 2015, aims to resolve the crisis around Tehran’s nuclear development. In response to the lifting of the sanctions previously imposed on Iran by the UN Security Council, the United States and the European Union, Tehran has pledged to limit its nuclear activities and put it under international control. The agreement entered the implementation phase in January 2016..

Trump has repeatedly criticized this deal, arguing that it did not prevent Iran from developing nuclear weapons, but only delayed the day when Tehran would have nuclear warheads.

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Britain is not ready to fight with Iran on the side of the USA

British Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt said he could not imagine a scenario in which Britain would go to war with Iran on the side of the United States.

According to Hunt, he is seriously concerned about the development of the situation in the Middle East and the risk of the accidental outbreak of war due to the continuing escalation of the diplomatic conflict between Washington and Tehran.

“The United States is our closest ally, we constantly communicate with them, we carefully consider all their requests, but I cannot imagine a situation in which they ask us and we agree to any military action,” said Jeremy Hunt, answering a question in Parliament about whether there was a risk that Britain would become involved in a war between the US and Iran.

As ForumDaily wrote earlier:

• 20 Jun. The Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC), which is the military branch of Iran’s executive branch, reported that shot down by an American reconnaissance droneallegedly in the airspace of Iran.
• Dron was shot down over the southern province of Hormozgan. This area is located near the Strait of Hormuz, which is actively used to transport oil.
• The US military first refuted Iran’s statement. Central Command spokesman Bill Urban said that there were no American UAVs over Iranian territory.
• But then AP and Reuters, citing sources at the Pentagon, reported that the American drone was indeed shot down by the Iranians, but stressed that it was in international airspace.
• The New York Times newspaper, citing sources at the White House, wrote that Trump, after losing the drone, gave the military order to start preparation for rocket and air strikes on Iranian goals, but at the last moment changed his mind.
• On Sunday, Trump reported that he was misunderstood. “I did not cancel the strike on Iran, but only postponed it,” the US president wrote in his Twitter account.
• 23 June became aware of the fact that US Cyber ​​Attacks Arms Systems in Iran in retaliation for attacks on tankers in the Strait of Hormuz and the destruction of an American drone.

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