From his ballroom in Mar-a-Lago, president Donald Trump issued a repudiation to the rolling accusation that his administration has offered no clear guideline as to why the US finds itself at war with Iran – or when it is going to end. If it’s not the end of the beginning of the war, then it’s certainly the beginning of the end, he suggested. Although the war is “almost complete”, nothing is ever over. The Islamic Republic has “no leadership left”, and the president does not approve of their selection as the new supreme leader.
Responsibility for the deaths of the Minab schoolgirls, an estimated 165 of whom were killed at their school by a Tomahawk missile, is still under investigation but, who knows, the blame may lie with the Iranians themselves. The more president Trump spoke, the thicker the haze of the next few days, and weeks, for the Middle East, and the knock-on global effects, became. But! The price of oil cooled and stock markets closed Monday evening in buoyant form.
Once again, Trump, Pete H
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