When I heard him tell the reporter who asked him when the war would end that “the trip is coming to an end and the mules are no longer there, ” I burst out laughing.
It reminded me of an American barfly who, after his third whiskey, solves all the problems and replies, “Come on, so what if ten soldiers were killed? Here, all of America has become great again and crushed the mullahs... We went on a trip that ended triumphantly, so what’s your problem?”
For the 73 million Americans who voted for Donald Trump, the answer is unbelievable, and the word“excursion”is a monument to communication technique. Only a Trump could call the otherwise justifiable attack on the world’s most barbaric regime a “field trip.”
And I’d bet that the word “excursion” must have annoyed the priesthood of murderers and mafiosi. Just as it must have greatly annoyed a segment of the Iranian military, which, it seems, is biding its time.
Apparently, its representatives are in negotiations with the Trump administration regarding the establishment of a non-theocratic regime in Iran, one that is friendly toward the U.S. and Saudi Arabia in particular.
These negotiations have become known to the mullahs and the “Revolutionary Guards” and are causing serious tremors within the mullahs’ regime, which is shaking severely despite what Iran projects to the outside world. Today in Tehran, there is a caste of multimillionaire military and administrative eliteswho have no intention of losing everything they have.
This class, as credible non-Western observers in Tehran assert, has no intention of following the clergy into its self-destruction, nor of creating conditions for civil war in Iran.
It would thus be willing, with the help of part of the army, to support, for example, the Shah’s son as a temporary ruler, but the latter is not to Trump’s liking. The American president fears he would play both sides with the U.S., just as his father did before he was overthrown.
Russian President Vladimir Putin shares this view and supports a potential military coup in Iran led by officers friendly to Russia.
According to our information from a network of Iranian journalists persecuted by the regime and now based in Germany, if the U.S. decides to bomb electrical infrastructure in Iran, for example, then developments will accelerate, and this is likely a significant card that Trump is holding in his hands.
And if this card proves effective, perhaps the term “excursion” he used for the attack on Iran was apt.
Based on the above, our Iranian colleagues predict that the war will not last as long as the mullahs and the Revolutionary Guards—who are linked to drug and arms trafficking networks—would like. These are lucrative operations that they will under no circumstances abandon.
Consequently, they anticipate that if the situation becomes more critical for their coffers, the regime will be overthrown from within, and Trump may be given the opportunity to boast about it and justify his “excursion.”
A word he repeated four times in his interview with reporters on Monday, March 9, at 11:30 p.m. Greek time.