Donald Trump promises the Kurds he will “remember”. The reason for the irritation of the US president
American President Donald Trump declared on Thursday that he was disappointed with the Kurdish groups, to whom he sent weapons in order to send them on to the participants in the riots that took place in Iran in January, but these weapons never arrived there, reports the EFE agency, taken over by Agerpres.
“I'm disappointed in the Kurds, to be honest. The Kurds have disappointed us,” Trump said in an interview with Fox News. “I think they (those guns) kept them for themselves. It's a shame, but I'll keep that in mind. I'll keep it in mind,” he warned.
Trump first said in April that the United States had sent weapons to protesters during anti-government protests in Iran in January, weapons supplied through Kurdish groups, but they apparently kept them for themselves.
The Tehran regime survived those protests, violently repressed. Since that attempt to remove the Iranian regime and replace it with one favorable to American interests failed, the US and Israel launched a bombing campaign against Iran on February 28, which they justified by the need to eliminate the country's nuclear and ballistic missile programs.
Despite the decimation of the Iranian political leadership in the airstrikes, the regime in Tehran is still surviving and negotiating an agreement with the US, after a truce agreed on April 8 and now being tested by new US bombings, followed by new Iranian retaliations on US bases in the region.
Trump threatens Iran with new bombings
In the same interview on Thursday and in a post on his social network Truth Social, Trump threatened Iran that he would hit it “very hard tonight” and that the United States would soon capture its oil and natural gas infrastructure, including by seizing Kharg Island, which is Iran's main oil terminal and through which the country delivers about 90% of its oil exports.
“At some point in the not too distant future, we will take Kharg Island, and other points of oil infrastructure, and take total control of their oil and gas markets, much like we did with Venezuela,” he wrote on Truth Social.
Trump did not mention anything in his message about a possible ground military operation to achieve such an objective. But he spoke about this in the interview given to Fox News, in which he said again that the bombings that will follow on Thursday on Iran will be more powerful and he claimed that, if he wanted, the American army could invade and occupy this country “tomorrow”, since “it is defenseless” following the American-Israeli bombing campaign.
However, he added that he would prefer not to hit civilian infrastructure such as bridges, power plants or water supply, as in such situations “people suffer”. In previous statements, he had threatened Iran with attacks on such targets.
Trump justified the resumption of bombing by Iran's downing of a US Apache military helicopter and by Tehran's delay in accepting a deal that would definitively resolve the issue of the nuclear file, in particular the neutralization of Iran's stockpile of enriched uranium.
