Tribune. Appearances count but are not everything. With this vote of the Iraqi Parliament demanding, Sunday, January 5, the departure of the American troops, Donald Trump seems to have played very badly. Far from leading to a weakening of Iran, the assassination of General Soleimani, an essential figure in the Islamic Republic, seems to cover the United States with shame throughout the Middle East and make them lose Iraq to the benefit of mullahs.
America is the killer; Iran, the victim of state terrorism. Even as pragmatists and conservatives in Tehran are closing ranks against Washington, the American press is brimming with questions about the strategy in which Donald Trump would have included this drone fire. The least we can say is that we don’t see it and, if it was a match, all the goals scored would be scored by the Iranian regime.
These are the facts. They are hardly discussed but nothing prevents another reading of this crisis because Donald Trump knew how to place the Iranian leaders in front of an impossible alternative since it is now as risky for them to avenge the death of Ghassem Soleimani as to refuse this gear .
Syrian opposition celebrates death of general
Take the first hypothesis, that in which they do avenge the assassination of a man who was the architect of Iranian projection throughout the Middle East, whose last square of the Syrian opposition celebrates death in Idlib because it was he who had allowed Bashar al-Assad to crush his people and who embodied, above all, the guards of the Revolution, this army of the regime which had repressed in blood the Iranian demonstrations of November 2019. This revenge , the Islamic Republic announced it. She promised it, but whether she does it directly or through her Lebanese, Syrian, Yemeni or Iraqi protégés, the American response to this Iranian response will be immediate and heavy.
Close to Donald Trump, Senator Graham on Friday January 3 warned Iranian leaders that their oil fields would be bombed if they attack the interests of the United States or their nationals. Donald Trump hit the nail on the head by reporting "52 targets" which he could order the strike.
The White House message was clear: "If you move, you will pay the price." There is little reason to doubt this threat, which the United States has every means to carry out. Iranian leaders have carried out seemingly limited reprisals.
