The war in Iran, unleashed by the US and Israel on February 28, has already entered its second month. Peace talks have recently started but there has been almost no progress – Trump seems to be losing patienceat least this is the impression one can get by observing his activity on social media.
First, he threatened to seize Iranian oil. He then said that if Iran did not open the Strait of Hormuz by Tuesday evening – a sea route that carries one-fifth of the world's oil and whose closure in late February sent oil and gas prices soaring, destabilizing economies around the world – the United States would respond with fierce attacks on Iran's infrastructure.
“If it happens, it will happen. If not, we will blow up the whole country. Tuesday will be both “power plant day” and “bridge day” in Iran. Open the f***ing strait [Ormuz]you crazy bastards, or you will live in hell. YOU WILL SEE,” Trump wrote on his Truth Social platform.
He added that if no agreement is reached, “very few” targets will remain free from the threat of a US attack. Asked whether it would include bombing Iran's civilian infrastructure, he said he did not want to answer that question. He also said that Tehran has enough time, so there is no need to extend the ultimatum.
“If they don't want an agreement, their country will disappear,” he threatened.
He stated that the negotiations with Iranian representatives are being conducted on behalf of the US by special envoys of the US President, Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner. He added that they were close to finalizing the agreement, but Iran was delaying it.
— They agreed to meet a few days ago, but asked for a five-day delay. I asked, “Why five days?” They are just playing for time. That's when I decided to hit the bridge, Trump said.
Iranian response
The Iranians did not leave these threats without comment. “If attacks on civilian targets continue, the next stages of our offensive and retaliatory operations will be much more devastating and extensive” – said Khatam al-Anbiya, spokesman for the Central Command, in a statement [najwyższej kwatery irańskiej armii] quoted by Iranian media.
Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmail Bagei said that Tehran has formulated its diplomatic response to the US and will publish it in due course, according to the official Iranian news agency IRNA, quoted by the Irish Times. He added that negotiations are “incompatible with the ultimatum and threats [popełnienia] war crimes.”
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Mehdi Tabatabai, deputy director of communications in the office of Iranian President Masud Pezezhkian, said Iran would only open the strait after receiving war damage compensation paid under a “new legal system” based on transit fees. He added that Trump, by threatening to attack Iran's civilian infrastructure, “resorted to profanity and nonsense out of sheer despair and anger.”
An anonymous, well-informed Iranian source warned of the dangerous consequences of a possible “insane move by US President Donald Trump against Iranian infrastructure.” It added that its effects will be felt in the territory of the United States of America.
American politicians are harsh on Trump's statements
After Trump published a profanity-laced message on Truth Social some American politicians began to question the mental health of the US president.
Marjorie Taylor Greene, a former Republican congresswoman and one-time Trump ally turned fierce critic, said anyone in the Trump administration who claims to be a Christian should “pray to God for forgiveness.”
“I know you're all crazy and you're all complicit. I'm not defending Iran, but let's be honest about this. Soleimani [irański generał major, dowódca sił Ghods, jednostki specjalnej w strukturach Korpusu Strażników Rewolucji Islamskiej] was killed because the United States and Israel started an unjustified war against Iran based on the same nuclear lies they have been telling for decades, that Iran will develop nuclear weapons at any moment. Do you know who has nuclear weapons? Israel. They are able to defend themselves without having to involve the United States in their wars, in which innocent people and children are killed,” she wrote on social media, quoted by The Guardian.
According to her, Trump's threats to bomb power plants and bridges harm the Iranian population, “the same population that Trump claimed he would liberate.”
U.S. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer He said Trump's tirade resembled “a madman's madness.” Independent senator Bernie Sanders, in turn, called Trump's reaction “dangerous” and emphasized that it was evidence of his “mental instability.”
“Here is the statement issued by the President of the United States on Easter Sunday, a month after the start of the war in Iran. This is the nonsense of a dangerous and mentally unstable man. Congress must act NOW. End this war,” he wrote on X.
Attack on the highest bridge in the Middle East
The civilian target of the US attacks that Iran says are the victims of the attack on the B1 Bridge in Karaj, a city near Tehran. The bridge, which Mizan said was the “highest in the Middle East,” was hit on Thursday. Iran's Fars news agency reported that he was attacked a second time, while emergency services were helping victims of the first attack.
At least eight people died and 95 were injured. Among the injured were “residents of the village of Bilkan, passers-by and families who were in the area on the occasion of Nature Day”, the last day of Nowruz. [tradycyjnego irańskiego święta nowego roku] Fars news agency reported.
— I feel helpless. [Trump] brazenly announces that he is attacking our bridge. I don't know how far this will go. Why doesn't anyone stop him? He takes us back to the Stone Age, said one Iranian woman.
Trump maintains that Iranian citizens want the United States to attack the regime's infrastructure because they live in fear and fear that the United States may withdraw from the war.
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