Scott Ritter,the former UN weapons inspector, said in an interview Friday that President Donald Trump wants theIran Warover because the war has become a nightmare for him and his administration.
Trump is “watching his political legacy, the legacy of his dynasty go down the drain,” he toldThe Trends Journal.“It’s becoming a parent to him that the Republicans are going to lose the House in November, and that's the end of his presidency. He could lose the Senate, which means he could go to jail.”
He continued: “We are looking at an economic catastrophe in the United States, that is solely the fault of Donald Trump, because he made the choice to go to war when we didn't need to go to war, and he lost. He needs this war to end; he's desperate right now trying to create the conditions of conflict termination that he can spin to make it look like he won the war. But the Iranians aren't playing that game; he's getting horrible, horrible briefings about Iran.”
He said he said Trump is being told that the Iranian government is fractured, even while it is more united than it has been.
Trump said Friday that the U.S. and Iranian ceasefire was still in place, despite a military exchange the previous day, but warned that his forces will intensify strikes on the country if its leadership does not agree to the new peace deal.
U.S. Central Command, which oversees the region, posted on X that its forces carried out a round of retaliatory strikes on Iranian facilities after Tehran launched an unprovoked attack on U.S. warships that had been transiting the Strait of Hormuz. The post said the drone and missile attack was unsuccessful and none of the ships were hit.
The Iranians responded to the strikes by carrying out a “reciprocal action, striking U.S. military vessels in the eastern SOH and south of Chabahar, which resulted in significant damage,” according to Iran’s State News Agency.
Trump downplayed the exchange as “just a love tap,”according to Time.
“Just like we knocked them out again today, we’ll knock them out a lot harder, and a lot more violently, in the future, if they don’t get their Deal signed, FAST!” he posted on Truth Social.
William Figueroa, an assistant professor of international relations at the University of Groningen, told the magazine that Trump is clearly trying to pressure Iran into signing a deal because the war has proven to be so unpopular in the U.S. and has been taxing on Washington’s reputation on the international stage.
Source: Trends in the News
