[Salon] Trump reposts 2018 all-caps anti-Iran threat in response to Israel strike | Donald Trump | The Guardian

[Todd Pierce <todd.e.pierce@icloud.com>]

This is horrendous! Talk about “weakness,” and Munich!

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/14/world/middleeast/biden-netanyahu-israel-iran-strikes.html

BLUF: "The leaders of the Group of 7 major industrial democracies echoed Mr. Biden’s message on Sunday morning, condemning Iran for the attack and warning that it could provoke what they called an “uncontrollable regional escalation” in the Middle East.

"This must be avoided,” the joint statement said. “We will continue to work to stabilize the situation and avoid further escalation.”

Thank God for these courageous Americans, as examples of “Profiles of Courage!” (sarcasm)

https://www.banking.senate.gov/newsroom/minority/scott-calls-on-biden-to-stand-with-israel-deny-funding-to-iran

"In response to Iran’s attacks on Israel, Ranking Member Tim Scott (R-S.C.) called on the Biden administration to support Israel and reverse course on its appeasement of Iran."

https://www.hindustantimes.com/world-news/us-news/trump-gop-leaders-blame-bidens-great-weakness-for-iranian-attack-on-israel-every-time-he-says-dont-101713098346054.html

Quote: "Taking to X, House Speaker Mike Johnson blamed the unprecedented attack on the Biden administration's appeasement of Iran and undermining of Israel.

"Calling on the world leaders to extend their support to Israel, he wrote: "I will continue to engage with the White House to insist upon a proper response."

"Rep. Nancy Mace, R-S.C., said the attack shows that "Biden's approach with Iran and the Middle East is backwards." "Now as we risk entering WWIII, the US must stand by Israel's commitment to democracy. The president must stand firm, and stop coddling Iran immediately."

https://www.jpost.com/israel-hamas-war/article-796871

"Tennessee Republican Sen. Bill Hagerty, . . . 

"Biden must abandon his failed appeasement strategy immediately," Hagerty said. 

"Hagerty went on to praise former president Donald Trump for moving the US embassy to Jerusalem, recognizing Israeli sovereignty over the Golan, signing the Abraham Accords and for initiating maximum pressure sanctions and taking out Soleimani without war. 

"We must return to Trump Admin's policies that delivered peace to the Middle East," Hagerty said.”

Or made clear to all that the U.S. Republican Party was a full co-belligerent with the Israeli fascists, and would never put any constraints upon them so it was time that Israel’s victims began defending themselves in the way that the U.S. and Israel call “deterrence!” 

Code Pink, https://www.codepink.org/cpc416, reports: "Meanwhile, a dozen Republican lawmakers are circulating a letter accusing President Biden of embracing a strategy of appeasement with Iran.”      (By definition of “Conservatives,” Trita Parsi would fall into the “liberal” side of the Quincy Institute, as compared to the pro-Trump “Conservative” side holding up the likes of Mollie Hemingway/Saurabh Sharma, and other Conservatives, as foreign policy “experts,” instead of the right-wing propagandists that they are.

I suspect many more than a dozen Republicans are doing all they can to deliver a U.S. War on Iran, as they, the Trumpites, the New Right, et al., have been working toward since Obama was elected, and for which the Oligarchs Thiel, Koch, Adelson, and other right-wingers, got Trump elected for, as Phase Zero of the war they were building toward. 

With apologies to any Trump supporters here in advance for sharing the truth about the coming WW III these fanatics are working toward. . . . 

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/apr/14/trump-iran-response-israel

Trump reposts 2018 all-caps anti-Iran threat in response to Israel strike

Ex- president known for chaotic foreign policy posts Republican senator’s praise of old Trump tweet telling Iran to ‘be cautious’

Sam Levine

Trump’s message underscores how quickly he is willing to escalate tensions with foreign leaders during moments of conflict. Photograph: Joe Raedle/Getty Images

Donald Trump responded to Iran’s Saturday attack on Israel by reposting a 2018 all-caps tweet in which he threatened the president of Iran and said the US would not stand for “DEMENTED WORDS OF VIOLENCE & DEATH.”

“To Iranian President Rouhani: NEVER, EVER THREATEN THE UNITED STATES AGAIN OR YOU WILL SUFFER THE CONSEQUENCES THE LIKES OF WHICH FEW THROUGHOUT HISTORY HAVE EVER SUFFERED BEFORE. WE ARE NO LONGER A COUNTRY THAT WILL STAND FOR YOUR DEMENTED WORDS OF VIOLENCE & DEATH. BE CAUTIOUS!” read the 2018 tweet.

Trump posted a screenshot on his social media platform, Truth Social, of the Florida senator Rick Scott praising the message.

While US president, Trump’s foreign policy was often chaotic and upended many traditional norms of US and international diplomacy. He was frequently criticized for his closeness to authoritarian figures such as the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, and the North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un and for undermining traditional pillars of western power such as Nato.

Trump originally tweeted the message in 2018 amid escalating tensions with Iran. It came after the then Iranian president, Hassan Rouhani, warned the US that a war with Iran would be the “mother of all wars”.

Trump’s message underscores how quickly he is willing to escalate tensions with foreign leaders during moments of conflict.

Joe Biden had warned Iran not to attack Israel following a 1 April airstrike in which Israel killed a top Iranian military commander in Syria. Biden is reportedly urging Israel not to respond to Saturday’s attack with force and has said the US will not participate in a counterstrike against Iran.

Trump also addressed Iran’s attack on Israel during a Pennsylvania rally on Saturday.

“They’re under attack right now. That’s because we show great weakness,” he said during a rally in Schnecksville, in Pennsylvania’s Lehigh Valley. “The weakness that we’ve shown is unbelievable, and it would not have happened if we were in office.”

As conflict has roiled Israel for months, Trump has said little publicly about how he would handle the issue if he gets a second term in the White House. Trump has previously said the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, “let us down” before the US killed a top Iranian commander in 2020. Trump has also praised Hezbollah, the Iranian-aligned group in Lebanon designated terrorists by the US, as “very smart”.