“Iran begs me for a deal” and changes the name of the Strait of Hormuz

“The Middle East is about to rise again”

“The war is not over yet. We are closer than ever to the rise of the Middle East, finally free from nuclear blackmail and the aggression of Iran. We have saved the Middle East. America is putting an end to the threat of this evil regime”, says Trump, from the podium of the Future Investment Initiative (FII), a summit organized in Miami by the Saudi sovereign wealth fund. The president should speak above all about the economy, but much of the speech is dedicated to the conflict, with self-referential and triumphalistic tones. “Iran must open the Trump Strait… I mean, Hormuz. Sorry, what a terrible mistake. The fake news will say: ‘He was wrong’… No, there are no mistakes on my part,” he says, reiterating that Iran would send 8 oil tankers ‘as a gift’ to the United States. The gift, according to Trump a relaxing gesture to encourage dialogue, has not found confirmation in Tehran.

“3554 objectives remain”

Then, the usual summary of the campaign, with the news relating to the number of targets still to be hit: “With Operation Epic Fury, something never seen before, we are demolishing all of Iran’s military capabilities. We aim whatever we want, we have 3554 targets left: we will deal with them quickly, at a certain point we will have to decide what to do”, he states. “For 47 years, Iran was the bully of the Middle East: that’s no longer the case. Iran launched missiles against the whole region, not just Israel: we stopped it, we saved the Middle East and not just Israel.”

The new attack on NATO

The Islamic Republic denies the existence of negotiations and refers only to exchanges of messages with Washington. “Iran is negotiating, 3 days ago they lied by saying that there were no negotiations: they are begging for an agreement”, reiterates Trump, who once again points the finger at NATO, guilty of not having intervened alongside America. “Nato is a paper tiger, I always said it wouldn’t help us. If we were faced with the ‘big one’, I guarantee you that NATO wouldn’t be there,” he says. The Atlantic Alliance, according to Trump, would not intervene alongside the United States even in the event of an extreme crisis. “Some allies weren’t there, we didn’t need them but they weren’t there. And this will be very costly for them.”