Massoud Shadjareh, the founder of the Islamic Human Rights Commission, joined Radio Sputnik’s Loud & Clear Monday to discuss tensions between the US and Iran after US President Donald Trump threatened to officially “end” Iran if it “wants to fight” this weekend.
Tensions between the US and Iran escalated earlier this month, when the US imposed more anti-Iranian sanctions and sent an aircraft carrier strike group, a squadron of B-52 bombers and Patriot interceptors to the Middle East in response to what Washington called a potential threat from Tehran.
« If Iran wants to fight, that will be the official end of Iran. Never threaten the United States again! » Trump tweeted on Sunday.
However, when asked by a reporter outside the White House Thursday whether the US would go to war with Iran, Trump responded, « I hope not, » a glaringly different tone than the one he adopted over the weekend.
« It really is bizarre, » Shadjareh told hosts John Kiriakou and Brian Becker, referring to Trump’s mixed messages regarding Iran.
« He [Trump] comes in to office saying he is really against the war in Iraq, but he [appoints] exactly the [same] people who actually [approved] those wars and puts them in very sensitive position[s]… His response is like a bully in kindergarten. It really is not becoming of a politician, head of the so-called most powerful nation on earth.
