Iran’s foreign minister accused President Donald Trump of attempting to sidetrack from America’s coronavirus crisis by threatening a war with Tehran, just weeks before he is due to leave office and be replaced by President-Elect Joe Biden, who has actually sworn to re-engage with the Iranian regime after four years of tensions.
Trump has actually been turning the screws on Iran throughout the shift period, doubling down on his “optimal pressure” campaign to paralyze the nation’s economy and isolate the program.
Observers have cautioned that Trump might take aggressive military action on Iran throughout his lame duck duration, and on Wednesday the president hinted that attacks on American interests by Iranian-backed militias in surrounding Iraq had actually opened the door for him to do so.
” Some friendly health recommendations to Iran: If one American is killed, I will hold Iran accountable,” Trump composed. “Think it over.”
However Zarif tweeted late Wednesday declaring Trump was using long-standing stress in Iraq to divert attention away from his administration’s bungling of the coronavirus pandemic in the U.S., where the virus has so far eliminated more than 326,000 people and contaminated more than 18.4 million.
” Putting your own people at threat abroad won’t divert attention from devastating failures in the house,” Zarif composed.
The foreign minister– who frequently utilizes Twitter and other social networks platforms to mock Trump and other Western leaders, although the websites are banned in Iran– posted screenshots of past Trump accusing Obama of attempting to begin a war with Iran to sidetrack from his domestic battles.
” In your own words,” Zarif composed, submitting screenshots consisting of one in which Trump declared: “In order to get chosen, @BarackObama will start a war with Iran.”
Trump Wednesday tweeted an image of 3 Iranian-made rockets that stopped working to fire during the attack and were recovered by private investigators.
The U.S. embassy in Baghdad is a regular target of attacks, triggering the Trump administration to recently alert it may close the facility completely if the Iraqi government can not guarantee its security.
Trump has revealed an Iraq drawdown to 2,500 soldiers by January, and America’s departure from Iraq– and expanded Iranian influence— appears a foregone conclusion.
AHMAD AL-RUBAYE/AFP through Getty Images/Getty
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