{"id":1524,"date":"2026-04-17T07:55:53","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T06:55:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/antipropaganda.yzz.me\/?p=1524"},"modified":"2026-05-23T10:23:28","modified_gmt":"2026-05-23T08:23:28","slug":"miert-trump-es-netanjahu-a-legveszelyesebb-emberek-a-bolygon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/antipropaganda.hu\/en\/miert-trump-es-netanjahu-a-legveszelyesebb-emberek-a-bolygon\/","title":{"rendered":"Why are Trump and Netanyahu the most dangerous people on the planet?"},"content":{"rendered":"

While Iran stands firm, there is no clear exit strategy from a war driven by one man's ego and another's messianic vision.<\/strong><\/h2>\n

It's hard to say who is more deluded about the Iran war: Donald Trump, the President of the United States, or Grok.<\/p>\n

Elon Musk's artificial intelligence platform falsely claimed that footage of a fire in Glasgow was linked to an incident in Tel Aviv, and confused a video that appeared to show Iranian oil fires with a devastating 2017 fire near Los Angeles.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, in a dizzying barrage of social media posts since the US attacked Iran, Trump has called for a mass uprising, demanded the country's unconditional surrender, claimed to be directly involved in choosing Iran's next leader, suggested that Iran would be beaten to hell, and vowed to expand his target list.<\/p>\n

But in his most significant post, he called the assassination of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran's former supreme leader, "the Iranian people's greatest chance to reclaim their homeland.".<\/p>\n

This was an opportunity that the Iranian people did not seize. Instead, thousands took to the streets to mourn Khamenei while the bombing was taking place.<\/p>\n

Furthermore, the assassination of the Iranian president, a unique event in modern history, could have had the exact opposite effect of what Trump and the mastermind of the operation, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, intended.<\/p>\n

Khamenei's assassination could have given new impetus to the Islamic Republic and the Iranian Revolution and given them a new direction.<\/p>\n

Iran's red lines<\/strong><\/p>\n

When the Islamic Republic feels threatened, it has a knack for suppressing national uprisings. But Khamenei has also been a pragmatist. Under his rule, Iran has not responded to the serial assassinations of its top generals and nuclear scientists\u2014and when it has, it has done so in a highly choreographed manner, in an effort to close the case.<\/p>\n

Under Khamenei, Iran stuck to its red lines of not attacking its Gulf neighbors or closing the Strait of Hormuz. There were instances when some of its proxy militias did so\u2014notably, in 2019, drones from Iraq attacked the Abqaiq and Khurais oil facilities in eastern Saudi Arabia, temporarily halving Aramco\u2019s daily output\u2014but responsibility was unclear and denial was somewhat likely. The Houthis claimed responsibility.<\/p>\n

Iran did not attack its Gulf neighbors when its top general, Qassem Soleimani, was killed by a US drone at Baghdad airport; nor when Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh was killed in a guesthouse run by the Revolutionary Guards after the inauguration of President Masoud Pesekian; nor when Israel killed several senior military commanders in last year\u2019s 12-day war.<\/p>\n

Trump, whose \u201egut feeling\u201d led him to attack Iran in the middle of negotiations, is wildly brandishing a new political phrase for every new day.<\/em><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Iran has not responded to the helicopter crash in Azerbaijan that killed former President Ebrahim Raisi, which takes on a different tone now that Israel's stated policy is to assassinate past and present leaders.<\/p>\n

Khamenei represented the second phase of the Islamic Republic, which was weighing its response. Khamenei was adamant. His oft-quoted remark to American officials was: \u201eA man like me will not pledge allegiance to a man like you.\u201d<\/p>\n

But it calculated the risks and acted accordingly. In response to the killing of Soleimani, Iran targeted two US bases in Iraq with missiles, but it did not tell the Iraqi government which bases it would attack. Both Hezbollah and Iran refused to join Hamas after the October 7, 2023, attack on Israel. And Iran twice tried to negotiate with Trump about its uranium enrichment program.<\/p>\n

This was not the case under the first Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini. His Iran was revolutionary and, as such, much more unpredictable. At the height of the revolution, 52 American hostages were held for 444 days in protest against Washington's allowing the deposed Shah to enter the United States for medical treatment.<\/p>\n

When Saddam Hussein's overwhelming army, supported by the United States and Europe and financed by the Gulf states, invaded Iran, Khomeini could not rely on the regular army to defend Iran.<\/p>\n

He turned to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), which was created to protect the revolution and counterbalance Iran\u2019s existing forces. Iran had no real army when Saddam invaded. By the time the war ended eight years later, it had: the Iran-Iraq War had transformed the IRGC into a formidable fighting force.<\/p>\n

Revolutionary spirit<\/strong><\/p>\n

Khamenei's Iran was neither revolutionary nor unpredictable. His death could easily have changed that; rather than killing the revolutionary spirit of the Islamic Republic, it might have revived it.<\/p>\n

In the space of 10 days, Iran closed the Strait of Hormuz, halting oil and gas production along the Gulf, and triggering a global oil crisis that was many times the size of the 1973 oil crisis. The oil loss \u2013 20 million barrels per day \u2013 is equal to all oil losses between 1978 and 2022 combined.<\/p>\n

He mocked the United States' promise to protect the Gulf shipping lanes. The Gulf states are looking for foreign private military specialists to support their operations, including radar operators, ground maintenance personnel, ground security teams and electronic warfare specialists who provide protection during active operations. They are also looking for pilots.<\/p>\n

Iran has severely damaged Qatar\u2019s $1.1 billion early warning radar system, which is needed to operate all of the region\u2019s Thaad launchers and Patriot batteries. The US must now replace the damaged Patriot systems by cannibalizing those deployed in South Korea.<\/p>\n

It bombed Manama, Kuwait City, Dubai, Doha, and Riyadh with drones. It almost completely shut down air traffic to and from the Gulf region.<\/p>\n

It dragged fourteen countries in the region into the war, including Cyprus, as well as three other European powers: Norway, the United Kingdom, and France, whose air bases or embassies were attacked.<\/p>\n

Iran is keeping the promise its warlord Ali Larijani made in interviews in response to Khamenei's death: "We will burn their hearts. We will make the Zionist criminals and the shameless Americans repent of their actions."\u201e<\/p>\n

Indeed, the American bombing seems to have energized Iran. Crowds took to the streets, staying there well past midnight, to cheer the appointment of Khamenei's son, Mojtaba, as his successor. Watch the footage of these mass demonstrations, and not everyone on the streets is a religious conservative.<\/p>\n

Mojtaba is the man Trump specifically told Iranians not to elect as their leader, a warning that is confirmed by Israel\u2019s daily updated death list. But with Mojtaba, the regime is sending a message to Trump that it cannot blackmail Iran as it has tried to do with the rest of the world. Iran has replaced an 86-year-old leader, reportedly suffering from cancer, with his 56-year-old son, a principled representative with longstanding ties to the IRGC.<\/p>\n

Global crisis<\/strong><\/p>\n

While serving in the Habib Ibn Mazahir Battalion, a volunteer-affiliated faction of the IRGC, Mojtaba came into contact with figures who later rose to senior positions in Iran's security and intelligence apparatus, such as Hossein Taeb, the future head of the IRGC's Intelligence Organization. Unlike Trump's sons, Mojtaba is well-versed in his country's security state.<\/p>\n

To this day, Mojtaba continues to wield political influence behind the scenes. A supporter of former populist President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Mojtaba has been accused of helping to plan both the alleged rigging of the 2009 elections and the subsequent crackdown on protesters.<\/p>\n

Ten days after the attack, Iran is making good on its promise that this war will be not just a regional but a global energy crisis \u2013 and all this before the Houthis have officially entered the war. They have the power to shut down international shipping through the Bab el-Mandeb Strait at the mouth of the Red Sea. They are preparing for war.<\/p>\n

Most importantly, the US-Israeli attack generated support for the Iranian regime out of patriotism and sheer national outrage over what Trump and Netanyahu were manipulating in their country.<\/p>\n

Listen to this voice: Abdolkarim Soroush is a prominent Iranian philosopher and intellectual, an early supporter of the 1979 Islamic Revolution who became one of its most outspoken critics and a leading advocate for religious reform. He argued that Islamic law is not immutable but a matter of interpretation, a position that led to his exile from Iran.<\/p>\n

He says this today: \u201eOur military forces are fighting with faith and courage, and the people must also rush to the aid of these self-sacrificing souls in any way they can.<\/p>\n

\u201e"This black cloud will pass over the country, but the shame will remain on the foreheads of those who stood by the traitors of the homeland. Today, neutrality is nothing more than stupidity and lack of conscience; contrary to the cries of a small minority, the majority of the Iranian people demand that the hands of the aggressors be cut off."\u201d<\/p>\n

Trump, whose \u201egut feeling\u201d led him to attack Iran in the middle of negotiations, is brandishing a new political phrase every day. Having previously rejected sending ground troops, he is now said to be seriously interested in the idea.<\/p>\n

For a while, Trump has been mulling using Iranian Kurdish groups as a front line. In addition to the fact that there are five different Iranian Kurdish groups, the Iranian Kurds have good reason not to heed Trump\u2019s call. Sources say that both Baghdad and Ankara are adamantly opposed to this.<\/p>\n

Bubble pops<\/strong><\/p>\n

As the days pass, the scale of the crisis grows. France is sending frigates. Britain is preparing an aircraft carrier. None of this was planned; it's just a last-minute rush.<\/p>\n

Iran is suffering heavy blows from daily bombing by American and Israeli bombers, but it has not been paralyzed. On the contrary, it has shown its ability to resist and respond in kind.<\/p>\n

It burst the bubble of security and wealth surrounding the Gulf states and exposed them to a full-scale war that so often in the past had seemingly not affected them or changed their way of life.<\/p>\n

To win, Trump needs Iran to collapse\u2014and soon. It shows no sign of doing so; rather, its survival strategy is working.<\/p>\n

How will this end? The pressure from the turmoil plaguing oil and financial markets will gradually mount, forcing Trump to end the worst US intervention in a long history of failed wars.<\/p>\n

The pressure on the end date is already mounting. \u201eWe are already in chaos,\u201d Israeli journalist Ronen Bergen quotes an Israeli security source as saying. \u201eWars usually have goals, and the end date is determined either by achievements or by thresholds set with the enemy during ceasefire negotiations. Here, because there were no clear goals, and because of Trump\u2019s character, we don\u2019t really know.\u201d Neither are his American counterparts, who are simply following orders, the defense source said.<\/p>\n

Market turmoil doesn't bode well for Trump. This is not a president who will ignore what Wall Street tells him, especially when he has the support of only 20 percent of American adults and faces midterm elections in November.<\/p>\n

To see this war through to the end, the United States would need to capture one or perhaps two key straits to protect international shipping lanes\u2014and they could only do that with troops on the ground. All of this cannot be done quickly.<\/p>\n

If he backs down, Trump will leave his own legacy in tatters and halt Netanyahu\u2019s messianic vision of an Israeli-dominated region. No future American president will be led down the same garden path by the same alliance.<\/p>\n

For Trump to win, he needs Iran to collapse\u2014and soon. It shows no sign of doing so; rather, its survival strategy is working. But in the meantime, this war could go much further, destroying nations, destroying oil fields, burning Persian Gulf assets, and killing thousands of innocent civilians.<\/p>\n

This is the price the region pays for one man's ego, another man's messianic vision, and the helplessness of a Europe that stands by and watches. A frustrated and frustrated Trump and Netanyahu are the two most dangerous men on this planet right now.<\/p>\n

David Hearst<\/em><\/p>\n

The views expressed in this article are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the editorial policy of Middle East Eye.<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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