Hany Ghoraba
IPT News, Dec. 18, 2024
“… one can only imagine what would happen if the Al Mahdi army was armed by a nuclear arsenal to complete its “holy mission.”
Following President Elect Donald Trump’s landslide victory in the 2024 U.S. Presidential elections, the new administration is facing a ramp of international crisis that extend from the Korean Peninsula, the Russian invasion of Ukraine and last but not least the escalating war in the Middle East ignited by the Hamas terrorist attack on October 7, 2023 on Israel. It doesn’t require a political expert to figure out that Iran’s unconditional support to Hamas and Hezbollah are behind the current 14-month regional crisis.
Last Monday, President-elect Trump ditched a moronic question about whether he intended on ordering a pre-emptive strike on Iran to prevent it from completing its militarized nuclear program.
“I can’t tell you that,” said Trump, “Am I going to do preemptive strikes, why would I say that? Can you imagine if I said yes, or no? You would say that was strange that he answered that question.”
His answer left the door open for more questions on how far Trump is willing to go to stop Iranian hegemony ambition and threats.
In the past year, Hamas and Hezbollah received a heavy beating by Israeli attacks on their strongholds in Gaza, southern Lebanon and Syria especially with the elimination of both terrorist groups’ leaders Yahya Sinwar and Hassan Nasrallah. Even with the fall of the longstanding Bashar Al Assad regime in Syria on December 8th, a regime which was Iran’s closest ally in the Middle East, Iran remains the catalyst and purveyor of chaos in Middle Region representing a serpent’s head that remains alive and thriving. …SOURCE