The New York Center For Foreign Policy Affairs (NYCFPA) condemns US President Donald Trump’s threat to bomb Iran and put secondary tariffs if it is unable to reach an agreement with Washington over its nuclear program. The Institute has warned that strikes against Iran’s nuclear infrastructure would have catastrophic outcomes.
The US president said that if Tehran “[doesn’t] make a deal, there will be bombing. It will be bombing the likes of which they have never seen before.”. Trump’s latest threat more vivid and fierce than any made before – came after he sent a note to Iran, as yet unrevealed, offering to hold discussions on its nuclear program. Iran had sent a reply to the US saying it was willing to hold indirect discussions, officials confirmed.
On the other hand, In his first reaction to US President Donald Trump’s threat of “bombing” Iran, Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has cautioned that any “external aggression” would follow with “firm retaliation.” Talking to a gathering during Eid al-Fitr prayer in Tehran on Monday, Khamenei stated external aggression is unlikely, but the nation is prepared for any eventuality.
“We do not believe that any external aggression is likely, but if any act of aggression occurs, they will undoubtedly receive a firm retaliatory blow,”
he added.
“And if they think of inciting sedition within our country—just as they have done in past years—the Iranian people themselves will respond to them.”
Such actions could problematize the situation and lead to outcomes that would require many times greater measures in the future in terms of balancing the danger of the emergence of yet another cradle of uncertainty and a conflict, an open conflict in the Middle East, where it is already highly relevant.
The US administration seems divided over whether to simply urge Iran to expose its civil nuclear program to fuller international inspection or make a more comprehensive set of demands including a complete stop to its nuclear program and an Iranian commitment to prevent bankrolling resistance groupings in the Middle East such as Hamas in Gaza and the Houthis in Yemen.
The direct threat of striking Iran by the leader of a country is a clear rejection of the essence of international peace and security. Such an announcement is a gross violation of the United Nations charter and a breach of the International Atomic Energy Agency safeguards regime. Violence brings violence and peace creates peace.
