«Tuesday will be Power Plant Day and Bridge Day, all in one, in Iran. There will be nothing like it!!! Open that “damned” (but he uses a much more vulgar word) Strict, crazy bastards, or you will live in hell – STAND AND WATCH! Praise be to Allah. President DONALD J. TRUMP.”
It would seem like fake news if they weren’t words published on the official website of the president of the United States. Never had a head of state expressed himself with such crudeness. Threats, after the one to return Iran to the Stone Age, and after the others “we will take the oil” that continue to add fuel to the fire. For now, Pope Leo’s requests for peace have been of no avail as he recalled, in the words of the Franciscan Father Francesco Patton, walking the Via Crucis at the Colosseum, that «every authority will have to answer before God for its own way of exercising the power received: the power to judge, but also the power to start a war or end itthe power to educate in violence or peace, the power to fuel the desire for revenge or reconciliation, the power to use the economy to oppress peoples or to free them from poverty, the power to trample on human dignity or to protect itthat of promoting and defending life or rejecting and suffocating it.”
And while the Pope continues, courageously, to invoke “disarmed and disarming” language, Trump multiplies words of hatred and the exploitation of God.
The American president, who uses God and religious words to talk about the rThe discovery of the American soldier missing in Iran after his fighter was shot down, like an “Easter miracle” and who gets blessed to bring war everywhere, loses consensus, but does not retreat. «If they don’t do something by Tuesday evening, they will no longer have power plants and they will no longer have bridges standing»he said when speaking about Iran in an interview with the Wall Street Journal, setting the deadline for accepting a truce to Tuesday, April 7 at 8pm Eastern.
The Iranian leadership responds to Trump’s fiery words, without vulgarity, but harshly: «Your reckless moves», writes the president of the Iranian Parliament Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf on X, «are dragging the United States into a real hell for every single family, and our entire region will burn because you insist on following Netanyahu’s orders. Don’t kid yourself: you will gain nothing by committing war crimes. The only real solution is to respect the rights of the Iranian people and put an end to this dangerous game.” Meanwhile on the domestic front, Marjorie Taylor Greene, former congresswoman, passionate about the Maga movement and former great Trump supporter accuses the president of having “gone crazy” and of telling “lies in the nuclear field”.
Greene, posting the photo with Trump’s threats to Iran, wrote on X that «All those within his administration who claim to be Christians they should kneel down, beg God’s forgiveness, stop worshiping the president and intervene to put a stop to Trump’s madness. I know all of you, just as I know him: him he has gone mad, and you are all complicit in it. I’m not defending Iran, but let’s be honest about this whole thing. The Strait is closed because the United States and Israel have launched an unprovoked war against Iran, based on the same nuclear lies that they have been saying for decades: that, at any moment, Iran would develop a nuclear weapon. Do you know who has nuclear weapons? Israel. They are more than capable of defending themselves, without the United States having to fight its wars, kill innocent people and children, and pay the price. Trump’s threats to bomb power plants and bridges target the Iranian people: the very people Trump claimed he wanted to liberate.”. And finally, the former congresswoman from Georgia observes: «Precisely on Easter – of all the days of the year – we Christians should remember that the Son of God died and rose from the dead so that our sins could be forgiven, once and for all. Jesus commanded us to love one another and forgive one another. Even our enemies. Our president is not a Christian, and his words and actions should not be supported by Christians. What Trump is doing is not what we promised the American people when, in 2024, they voted for us by an overwhelming majority.”
Meanwhile theAmerican agency Axios – however branded as «the Mossad’s means of communication for psychological operations» from the Iranian news agency Tasnim, affiliated to the Pasdaran – rhe reveals that «The United States and Iran are discussingthanks to the group of mediating countries (Pakistan, Egypt and Turkey), and with direct contacts between the White House special envoy Steve Witkoff and the Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Aragchi, with exchanges of messages, the terms of a possible 45-day ceasefire that could bring the war to an end». Trump reportedly told Axios the existence of «in-depth negotiations» with a 45-day ceasefire and then a definitive peace if there is a reopening of the Strait of Hormuz and a halt to uranium enrichment. «The effort to extend the truce to 45 days is the last chance to avoid a dramatic escalation of the conflict which will include massive raids against Iranian civilian infrastructure and retaliation after raids by Iranian forces against energy and water desalination sites in the Gulf countries,” the agency said.
For its part, however, Iran denies that there are ongoing negotiations for a truce and explains that the American revelations are «yet another step backwards by Donald Trump, aware of Iran’s firm determination to respond to any madness regarding power plants and other infrastructure.” According to the Iranians, Trump «is probably trying to retreat from this threat for the third time, and this type of news is perhaps being spread to prepare for this eventuality. Iran has repeatedly stated that it does not accept temporary ceasefires” which would serve the “American-Zionist enemies, who are under the pressure of war and confused” to “get out of the ammunition crisis and difficult strategic situation”.
Given Trump’s unpredictability who doesn’t even seem to listen to his military advisors who were skeptical and worried about the operation in Iran from the beginning, not even the most sophisticated analysts make any predictions about what might happen on Tuesday evening. And in the meantime, while the American president “plays” his war, the number of civilian victims continues to increase. In the latest Israeli and US raid, 17 people were killed, including six young children. “If attacks against civilian targets are repeated, our operations will be much more devastating,” commented an advisor to Khamenei.
“For me, the most painful part of this war is not just the sound of the explosions, but the horrible contradiction hidden behind apparently liberating slogans”, Hasti Diyè, an Iranian professor, commented from Tehran. who lived abroad for years to escape persecution, but then returned to her country after the start of the war to be close to her family. «The person who, just a few months ago, appeared with promises to “restore greatness to Iran” and presented herself as a supporter of the people, now he talks about destroying that same land in a language that sounds a lot like humiliation and erasure», wrote the teacher. «When Trump talks about “sending a country back to the Stone Age”, behind it is the collapse of the daily lives of people who had no role in the decisions that led to the war». And again, he continues, «the destruction of bridges, vital routes, industrial centers and infrastructures built through years of effort directly undermine the lives of ordinary citizens who have to travel these roads every day, work, obtain medicine and simply survive. For me the attacks on scientific and pharmaceutical centers are the most shocking of all. When a place that should be dedicated to the production of vaccines, medicines and hope for patients is targeted, it can no longer be explained as a military target. In these moments, patients, children, the elderly and all those who depend on this production chain become the first real victims of the war. The destruction of the country’s large industries and economic pillars is also much more than the ruin of simple structures: it means hurting the future of a nation, taking away the ability to get back on their feet from people who were already living under immense pressure even before the war. What angers me the most is that some people, at a distance and protected by their geographical safety, applaud such devastation and call it heroism, without ever feeling the human suffering caused by every missile and every collapsed building. I cannot accept any political narrative in which the destruction of cities, the disruption of medical supplies, the paralysis of infrastructure and the constant fear imposed on civilians are justified in the name of freedom or salvation. War, whatever name it is given, when it falls on ordinary people, only multiplies the pain and leaves hatred on the shoulders of entire generations.”.
