'It's simple — Trump's failing': Netizens rip into US warmongering against Iran

Social media users have slammed US President Donald Trump’s repeated military threats against Iran, with the latest under the pretext of the country’s nuclear issue, saying Israel is dragging Washington into fighting another war on behalf of the Tel Aviv regime.

In a post on Truth Social on Wednesday, Trump said that “time is running out” to make a deal over Iran’s nuclear program and warned that next attack “will be far worse” than the one it carried out last summer, when the US military bombed three Iranian nuclear sites in the midst of an illegal Israeli aggression against the country. 

He also said that a “massive armada” heading towards Iran was “prepared to rapidly fulfill its missions with speed and violence if necessary.”

He further noted that the fleet headed by the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln was “larger” than the one sent to Venezuela, just ahead of the military aggression that led to the kidnapping of President Nicolas Maduro early in January.

Trump’s threats of military action against Iran began after recent economic protests in Iran, which were quickly hijacked by foreign-linked armed mercenaries.

The US president talked about coming to the aid of the rioters during the unrest that killed a total of 3,117 people, including 2,427 civilians and security personnel.

American trend forecaster Gerald Celente said that Trump is going to take the country to war with Iran in order to “distract from the living hell in the US.”

“It's simple — Trump's failing,” he added in an X post.

Historian Adnan Husain said Iran is a target because it can challenge Israel-US hegemony in West Asia and supports Palestinian resistance.

Lieutenant Colonel Daniel Davis, a four-time combat veteran and host of the very popular Daniel Davis Deep Dive, said the US military is “in the pocket of” Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

He also warned that war hawks like Netanyahu and former US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo are steering the US to a catastrophe.

Meanwhile, Award-winning British journalist Afshin Rattansi listed remarks by analysts who said Israel wants a war between the Iranians and the Americans.

Similarly, Cenk Uygur, director of the American TYT network, said that Israel bears “responsibility” for any American who dies in a possible US aggression against Iran.

In an X post, former US Congressman Ron Paul quoted remarks by Daniel McAdams, executive director of the Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity, who questioned Trump's threats of war despite previous claims to have obliterated Iran’s nuclear capability.

Journalist Caitlin Johnstone enumerated different excuses that Trump uses for threatening an attack on Iran,

Another X user said Trump’s bellicose threat followed the failure of riots in Iran, which were “provoked” by Israel and the US.

Journalist Aaron Maté asked why Iran would give up its missiles, which are the last deterrent against an armed attack.

Erik Sperling, the executive director of Just Foreign Policy, denounced the US president’s “absurd demand that Iran agree to be defenseless against Israeli bombing.”

Additionally, former US Marine Brian Berletic stressed that attacking Iran is part of a wider strategy aimed at isolating Russia and China.

In response to Trump’s war rhetoric, Iran's Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said the country's Armed Forces stand ready "with their fingers on the trigger" to "immediately and powerfully respond" to any aggression by land or sea.

Tehran, he added, remains open to a “mutually beneficial, fair, and equitable” nuclear deal, provided it is conducted on an “equal footing” and remains free from “coercion, threats, and intimidation.”

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