On October 27, 2019, a few hours after the death of the head of the Islamic State organization, Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi, Donald Trump spoke at length, answering press questions in great detail. A few hours after the assassination of Iranian General Ghassem Soleimani by an American drone strike, Friday January 3, the President of the United States was satisfied with a short intervention of four minutes, and he did not respond to no questions.
In his speech read in a room at his luxury club in Mar-a-Lago, Florida, where he is spending his vacation, Donald Trump tried to justify his decision by the need to restore an American deterrent. "Soleimani was planning imminent and malicious attacks against American diplomats and military personnel, but we caught him in the act and we eliminated him", assured the president.
"Under my leadership, American policy is unambiguous in the face of terrorists who harm or intend to harm an American. We will find you; we will eliminate you. We will always protect our diplomats, our soldiers, all Americans and our allies, he added. (…) Soleimani has perpetrated acts of terror to destabilize the Middle East for twenty years. What the United States has done should have been done long ago. Many lives would have been saved. "
The American decision, fraught with unpredictable consequences for the moment, constitutes a cruel contradiction to the thesis long defended by the President of the United States who assured alone, for months, that Tehran had "Changed" since arriving at the White House. "Look what happened to Iran. Iran, when I took office, was spreading terror. They fought in many places in the Middle East (…). They were involved in everything. Now they are withdrawing because they have serious economic problems ", he had thus assured on May 27, 2019.
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Donald Trump has remained silent on the precise reasons which precipitated the assassination of the Iranian general after weeks of heightened tensions between Tehran and Washington on Iraqi soil. The president neither re-explained to his fellow citizens his policy towards Iran, nor detailed in what the strike, publicly assumed – contrary to the raids led by Israel against Iranian positions in Syria -, comforted him .
