Tweet-Down to the Apocalypse? US Recklessness on Iran Could Trigger ‘Mother of All Wars’
- Tweet-Down to the Apocalypse? US Recklessness on Iran Could Trigger ‘Mother of All Wars’
by https://www.rt.com/
Once again, US foreign diplomacy has boiled down to a series of inflammatory comments via social media, with the US leader this time threatening Iran with “consequences” as talk of sanctions and blockades heats up.
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Late on Sunday night, Donald Trump, supreme commander-in-chief of his Twitter feed, launched into the void of darkness a screaming, all-caps invective addressed to Iranian President Hassan Rouhani:
- Ah yes, nothing like the sweet sound of calm and composed chatter between bickering state leaders – especially at a time when the world is straddling a nuclear-weapon keg the size of Mount Everest.
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Trump’s latest over-the-top outburst came in response to a statement by Rouhani, who just the day before was quoted as saying: “The Americans must understand… that peace with Iran is the mother of all peace, and war with Iran is the mother of all wars.”
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Rouhani, a moderate, progressive-minded politician who enjoys robust support at home, as well as respect on the international stage, went on to say that the Islamic Republic “will certainly defeat America” because ongoing threats against the Iranian people will “only serve to unite them.”
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Considered in its entirety, the comment sounds less like a “threat” aimed at the United States, as Donald Trump seems to have interpreted it, and more of a reminder as to what a full-blown military conflict between the US and Iran – a showdown that would pull other serious players into the fray – would look like. Indeed, in the event of such a scenario, the world should expect nothing short of World War III, or the war to end all wars, at least for a very long time. That is why we need to hear more such “threats,” not less, if the human race is to avoid a global conflagration that could wipe out life on the planet as we know it. But I digress.
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