“He didn’t say yes/He didn’t say no/He didn’t say stop/He didn’t say go”
Trump has said so many things about Iran that it’s hard to know what he thinks from one day to the next.
Sometimes he’s said the “war is over” and there’s no need for more attacks, while at other times, he insists that unless Iran ends its entire nuclear program, which means handing over its 440 kilograms of uranium that has been enriched to the just-below weapons-grade level of 60%, the war will still go on.
The Iranians, on the other hand, have steadfastly maintained that they will never surrender their stock of enriched uranium, because they need it for “peaceful purposes.”
They fail to explain why they needed to enrich uranium to the level of 60%, when for peaceful purposes it need only be enriched to a level of between 3% and 5%.
Now, yet again, Iran has said “not a single particle of enriched nuclear material” will leave the country.
At the same time, Iran has published pictures of one of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps’ vast network of military tunnels, asserting that they have been dug so deep below the surface as to be impregnable.
It’s a way to show the West that it is ready for a fight...
And as part of its threat, Iran says that in event of an American attack, the Iranians will attack American bases in the region, and if the Americans target Iran’s energy infrastructure, Iran will also attack energy facilities of its Gulf neighbors, causing worldwide chaos in the energy markets.
Furthermore, Iran says it will hit American bases as far away as Europe.