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U.S. President Donald Trump seemed to be clearing the way for war with Iran in a social media post on Monday warning the country that he will hold it responsible for every shot fired by the Houthis in Yemen after the weekend bombing campaign he ordered that killed at least 53.
Trump called the Houthis “sinister mobsters” who fully rely on Iran to spread terror.
“Any further attack or retaliation by the ‘Houthis’ will be met with great force, and there is no guarantee that that force will stop there,” indicating that it will include Iranian positions.
“Every shot fired by the Houthis will be looked upon, from this point forward, as being a shot fired from the weapons and leadership of IRAN, and IRAN will be held responsible, and suffer the consequences, and those consequences will be dire!” he posted.
Amir Saeid Iravani, Iran’s UN ambassador, called Trump’s comments “reckless and provocative,” according to Reuters.
Abbas Araqchi, Iran’s foreign minister, posted on X: “The United States Government has no authority, or business, dictating Iranian foreign policy. That ended in 1979.”
He called on the U.S. to stop supporting Israel’s genocide in Gaza and to stop killing people in Yemen, IRNA reported.
Trump’s decision to approve strikes on Yemen prompted a response from the Houthis that launched two unsuccessful attacks on the USS Harry Truman in the Red Sea, NBC News reported, citing a U.S. defense official. The Houthis said in a post on Telegram that it is prepared to “respond to escalation with escalation,” according to the report.
The Houthis have said from the onset of the confrontation that they will not stop until Israel ends the genocide in Gaza.
Pete Hegseth, the defense head, told his former employer, Fox News, that the U.S. will end its campaign the moment the Houthis stop targeting ships.
“This is about stopping the shooting at assets in that critical waterway, to reopen freedom of navigation, which is a core national interest of the United States, and Iran has been enabling the Houthis for far too long,” he said, according to Reuters. “They better back off.”
Sergey Lavrov, the top Russian diplomat, told Marco Rubio, his counterpart in the U.S., that Washington should stop its use of force in Yemen and called for “all sides to engage in political dialogue in order to find a solution that would prevent further bloodshed.”
TRENDPOST: Craig Mokhiber, a top human rights lawyer, posted on X that Yemen is being bombed by the Trump administration for honoring international law amid Israel’s latest blockade of humanitarian aid and electricity into Gaza.
Mokhiber, who resigned from his post as director of the New York Office of the UN’s High Commissioner for Human Rights, noted that both the International Court of Justice and the UN General Assembly say countries are “legally obliged” to end support for Israel after a provisional ruling in the ICJ’s genocide case against Israel. He said these countries have obligations “under the Genocide Convention to act to prevent and stop Genocide. Yemen is being bombed for respecting these obligations.”
Scott Ritter, the former UN weapons inspector, also posted on X that the “easiest and cheapest way to stop the US-Houthi flare up is for Israel to allow humanitarian goods back into Gaza.”
“It really is that simple,” he posted.
He posted again: “And, in one night of narcissistic megalomania, Donald Trump gave up the title peacemaker, exchanging it for warmonger, and put himself on the path of becoming America’s greatest loser. America can’t be ‘great again’ when the price of oil shoots through the roof. And starting a war with Iran will go down in history as one of the worst self-inflicted wounds an American President ever committed.”
TRENDPOST: The Trends Journal has reported extensively on how Iran would be Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s crown jewel and he will never have a president as devoted to Israel as Trump and his Zionist Cabinet again. (See “IS PRESIDENT TRUMP AN ISRAELI PUPPET?” 11 Mar 2025, “TRUMP ISSUES NEW THREAT TO HAMAS, SAYS HE’S PROVIDING ISRAEL ALL IT NEEDS TO FINISH THE JOB” 11 Mar 2025, “TRUMP GIVES HAMAS DEADLINE TO RELEASE HOSTAGES OR ‘ALL HELL IS GOING TO BREAK OUT’” 11 Feb 2025, “TRUMP DOUBLES DOWN ON MOVING GAZANS TO JORDAN, EGYPT” 4 Feb 2024 and “TRUMP-APPOINTED BOARD MEMBER OF U.S. HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL COUNCIL SAYS GAZANS ARE ‘EVIL,’ NOT WORTHY OF ‘MERCY’,” 4 Feb 2024.)
Netanyahu said in February that he believes Israel will be able to “finish the job” of knocking out the Iranian threat with Trump in office.
Peace President or Peace-of-Shit President
There was a moment after the election that Trump sounded like he just may be the “peace” president that he said he was going to be—when he said neocon warmongers Mike Pompeo and John Bolton would not be joining his administration.
Since then, he staffed his Cabinet with B-level anchors from Fox News and neocons like Mike Waltz and Marco Rubio. Trump was asked in an interview that aired Sunday about his campaign promise to bring an end to the Ukraine War in 24 hours of taking office. He told the reporter that he was “being a little bit sarcastic.”
Maybe Trump never had any intention of being a peace president and just has a real problem with sarcasm.