Netanyahu’s war? Analysts say Trump’s Iran attacks benefit Israel, not America Donald Trump News
During his trip to the Middle East in May, President Donald Trump stood before regional leaders and announced a new era of U.S. foreign policy in the region, one that would be guided by no attempt to reshape the region or change its governance system.
“Ultimately, so-called nation-builders have destroyed far more nations than they built, and interventionists are meddling in complex societies they don’t even understand themselves,” the US president said in a rebuke to his hawkish predecessor.
Recommended Stories List of 3 items sent Less than a year later, Trump ordered a full-scale attack on Iran with the stated goal of bringing “freedom” to the country, borrowing from the playbook of interventionist neoconservatives such as former President George W. Bush, whom he has criticized throughout his political career. Analysts say a war with Iran is inconsistent with Trump’s stated political ideology, policy goals or campaign promises. Instead, several Iran experts told Al Jazeera that Trump is waging war with Israel to the benefit of Israel and its Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu. “This is once again a war of choice waged by the United States [a] “This is another war the United States is waging against Israel,” said Negal Mortazavi, a senior fellow at the Center for International Policy in Washington, D.C. “Israel has been pushing the United States to attack Iran for two decades, and they finally got it.” Mortazavi highlighted Trump’s criticism of his predecessors, who waged regime-change wars in the region.
“It’s ironic because this is a president who calls himself a ‘president of peace,'” she told Al Jazeera. Iran ‘threats’ have a history of warnings to Netanyahu, who pushed for the 2003 US invasion of Iraq, for more than two decades. Iran is on the cusp of acquiring nuclear weapons. Iran denies seeking a nuclear bomb, and even Trump administration officials admit that Washington has no evidence that Tehran is weaponizing its uranium enrichment program. Last June, after the United States bombed Iran’s main enrichment facilities in a 12-day war – an attack that Trump said “destroyed” the country’s nuclear program – Netanyahu turned his sights to a new alleged Iranian threat: Tehran’s ballistic missiles. Any American city can be held to ransom,” Netanyahu told pro-Israel podcaster Ben Shapiro in October.
“People don’t believe it. Iran is developing an intercontinental missile with a range of 8,000 kilometers [5,000 miles]Add another 3,000 [1,800 miles]Trump reiterated the claim during his State of the Union address earlier this week, but Tehran has strongly denied it and has not backed it up with any public evidence or testing. “They have developed missiles that can threaten Europe and our overseas bases, and they are working hard to build missiles that will soon reach the United States of America,” he said of the Iranians. But the U.S. president’s national security strategy last year called for deprioritizing the Middle East in Washington’s foreign policy and focusing instead on the Western Hemisphere.
Meanwhile, polls show the American public is wary of global conflict following the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and largely opposed to new strikes against Iran. A recent University of Maryland survey showed that only 21% of respondents said they favored war with Iran.
On the day of the war, Iran launched missiles at bases and cities in the Middle East hosting U.S. troops and assets in retaliation for joint U.S. and Israeli attacks that plunged the region into chaos. Trump acknowledged that “this happens all the time in wars,” he said on Saturday, “but we’re not going to do it for a while. We’re doing it for the future.” This is a noble mission. ‘Ignoring the vast majority of Americans’ The Trump administration appeared to take a step back from the brink of conflict by engaging diplomatically with Tehran earlier this month. U.S. and Iranian negotiators held three rounds of talks over the past week, with Tehran emphasizing its willingness to agree to strict inspections of its nuclear program.
Omani mediators and Iranian officials described the final round of talks on Thursday as positive, saying it had achieved significant results. Israel’s unwarranted provocations of 2025-6 The January war also broke out during US-Iran talks. “Netanyahu’s agenda has always been to block a diplomatic solution and he is worried that Trump is actually serious about wanting to make a deal, so it would be a success for him to have this war break out during negotiations, as it did last June,” said the National Iranian American Council (NIAC). President Gamal Abdi told Al Jazeera:
“The change of rhetoric is a further victory for Netanyahu and a loss for the American people because it signals that the United States may be committed to a long and unpredictable military effort.” In announcing the attack on Saturday, Trump said his aim was to prevent Iran from “threatening the United States and our core national security interests.
” But critics in the United States, including some supporters of Trump’s “America First” campaign, believe Iran – more than 10,000 kilometers (6,000 kilometers) away, U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee told conservative commentator Tucker Carlson earlier this month Carlson, “If there was no Iran, there would be no Hezbollah; if there were no Iran, there would be no Hezbollah; if there were no Iran, there would be no Hezbollah.” Carlson said:
“What’s the problem with the border with Lebanon? I’m an American. I don’t have any problems with the Lebanese border right now. I live in Maine.” On Saturday, Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib emphasized that the American public does not want a war with Iran. “Trump is acting on the violent fantasies of America’s political elite and Israel’s apartheid government, ignoring what the vast majority of Americans are saying loud and clear: no more war,” Tlaib said in a statement.