Afrasianet - Former Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif attributed US President Donald Trump's statement threatening to "take Iranians back to where they belong: the Stone Age" to Trump's anger at "the Iranians' unconditional surrender."
This insult to Iranians, Zarif said, reveals the nature of what he said: Iran "had a high civilization when he was in the Stone Age." According to an analysis in the Hebrew press, published a few days ago, the official American position expressed in the statements of the US War Department and the "White House" was against Israel's damage to Iran's national infrastructure for fear of an Iranian response by bombing oil facilities in the Gulf, which would exacerbate the worsening global energy crisis.
The Trump administration is witnessing a movement that is necessarily related to the decision of the US-Israel war on Iran, starting with the Pentagon's announcement of the retirement of the US Army ground forces chief of staff to retirement "with immediate effect", and talk of This coincides with dismissals that indicate a shake-up in the Trump administration regarding pressing issues in the American arena, such as the dismissal of Justice Secretary Pam Bundy over her handling of the Jeffrey Epstein files, and talk of Trump's investigation into the firing of FBI Director Cash Patel (both of whom are highly loyal figures to Trump!).
All of this comes in light of a significant decline in the popularity of the US president due to the war, and in light of the anti-Trump "No Kings" demonstrations, in which the number of participants reached nearly 8 million Americans.
In light of the enormous technological and firepower superiority of America and Israel, remarkable military successes can be observed for Iran, the latest of which was the announcement of the downing of an American fighter jet inside Iranian territory, and the confirmation by the Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper, on the same day, that there had been significant damage to an Israeli factory for the production of drones near Tel Aviv.
Despite entering the sixth week of the war on Iran, Iran was able to bomb the Dimona area, a chemical factory for the production of fertilizers, and target the Haifa refinery, not to mention that Hezbollah in Lebanon was able to inflict painful blows on the Israeli army, which led the latter to acknowledge the unrealistic goal of disarming the party.
Trump's involvement in a strategy to destroy Iranian infrastructure, if it happens, would be a confirmation of Zarif's words about the US president's frustration with the Iranian regime's refusal to surrender, in addition, of course, the Strait of Hormuz card, which Tehran has included in its cards, the military successes of the "eye for eye" policy applied against Israel, and the threats to target "all American assets" in the region.
Trump's dragging into the "Stone Age" alliance with Netanyahu is, in this sense, also a pledge of annihilation that Israeli officials declare they want to apply to Lebanon and Syria and Iran, parting with America's promises to protect the Persian Gulf region, and increasingly distancing itself from Europe... and human civilization, and a real return to the "Stone Age".
Source: Al-Quds Al-Arabi
