Trump fighting a war he was pushed into, has no endgame: Mehdi Hasan
India Today
Award-winning journalist Mehdi Hasan, in an interview with India Today, said the US-Israel strikes in Iran were an 'unprovoked war of aggression' that was completely unnecessary. He also provided insights into the future of the conflict and why Trump might have joined Israel's war against Iran.
Award-winning journalist and geopolitical expert Mehdi Hasan called the ongoing US-Israel strikes in Iran an "unprovoked war of aggression" that was completely unnecessary and asserted that Donald Trump entered the conflict without a clear exit strategy. In a hard-hitting interview with India Today, Hasan said the Trump administration was full of "incompetent people" who have been constantly shifting the justification for the war.
"The war lacks clear strategic goals. The Trump administration's rationale has been shifting by the day. This was a war of aggression, a war of choice launched by the US and Israel. The US have no end goal in sight," the British-American broadcaster said.
"After dropping the bombs, they are now trying to work out the exit strategy. It is bizarre," he further said.
In fact, recent statements by Trump aides have shown that Hasan is not off the mark. While Trump initially said the goal was to enforce regime change in Iran, his Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, has underscored that the aim was to protect US military personnel in the region. On the other hand, Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth said degrading Iran's missile programme was the objective.
Hasan suggested that the conflict might also be serving domestic political purposes for Trump, calling it a distraction from economic pressures at home and the controversy surrounding the release of the Epstein files.
In January, the US Justice Department released over 3.5 million pages of classified files related to sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Trump's name appears in those files more than 3,000 times. Just four days before the US bombed Iran, NPR published an investigative article saying the Justice Department withheld dozens of pages related to sexual abuse allegations against Trump.
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