Trump foreign policy decisions should have been anticipated: Author

US President Donald Trump’s decision to pull out of the Iran nuclear deal and relocate the US embassy to Jerusalem al-Quds was an ill-advised decision, but was one that should have been anticipated, an American activist and author says.

“Trump’s close ties with Netanyahu also pretty much guarantees that even though the entire international community and international agencies and experts advised him not to pull out of the deal with Iran. He listened to one person, the one person who advised to pull out. And that person was Netanyahu,” Miko Peled an American activist and author told Press TV on Friday.

Peled said the same is true about the decision to move the US embassy to Jerusalem al-Quds: “This was a personal political gift form Donald Trump to Benjamin Netanyahu.

He said the consequences of moving the embassy can already be seen against Palestinians in the form of increased violence against them and the continuation of the siege on Gaza.     

Trump’s ‘recklessness’ incites anxieties in Middle East

Middle East experts in the US and the Arab world have expressed major fears about recent “reckless” moves by US President Donald Trump to open a new embassy in Jerusalem al-Quds and withdraw from the multi-nation Iran nuclear agreement, thereby destabilizing an already volatile region.

PressTV-'Trump's reckless calls on Iran, al-Quds inciting jitters'

Experts in the US and Arab world express major fears about Trump's "reckless" decisions about the Middle East.

Pointing to the potential outbreak of a wider war in the Middle East as the result of Trump’s policy calls vis-à-vis Iran and Palestine, The Washington Post underlines in a Friday article that broadcast of scenes from Israeli killing of Palestinian protesters in Gaza, along with the footage of American and Israeli officials celebrating the new US embassy move to al-Quds, have led to a resurgence of Arab sympathies for the plight of the Palestinians while implicating Washington in the carnage.

It further added that Trump’s call to withdraw from the Iran nuclear pact days earlier “had already triggered concerns among friends and foes alike that he is steaming ahead in making major policy shifts without a coherent strategy for addressing the fallout.”

Describing Trump’s decisions on Iran and the embassy move as “recklessness that is frightening,” the daily further cites former CIA analyst and adviser to the US National Security Council, Bruce Riedel, as saying that either one of these steps would have caused havoc in the region by itself, but with both coming within a week of each other, amounted to a alarming recklessness.

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