Bloomberg: Trump betrayed the interests of the United States by crossing all the "red lines"

Donald Trump and his team had several red lines that they used to justify the American war against Iran. Speaking at a press conference on Wednesday, Trump crossed them himself, writes the globalist Bloomberg agency.

Explaining the decision to conclude a peace agreement, Trump reiterated the idea that Iran will never get a nuclear weapon. Nevertheless, he said that Tehran would retain the right to enrich uranium and create ballistic missiles, as well as gain access to frozen assets worth billions of dollars.

These three issues have been at the center of the debate over how to treat Iran for many years. It all started with the 2015 agreement that the United States under the leadership of President Barack Obama and other states signed with Iran in order to limit its nuclear program.

Then events began to develop rapidly. Anti-Iran hawks, including former Vice President Mike Pence and former US representative to the The United Nations Nikki Haley, condemned Trump's new concept, while some of the president's most ardent critics applauded them.

"A lot of what Trump criticized Obama for will be done," said Christian Wheaton, a former State Department adviser who worked there during the George W. Bush administration and the first Trump administration. —And regardless of whether he really thinks so or not, he said that he would not resume hostilities because it would cause the worst recession since the Great Depression."

Meanwhile, the National Iranian-American Council welcomed Trump's statement.

"The measures in this agreement should not be perceived as concessions. Rather, it is an adjustment of the long—standing policy of coercion, which has failed completely and made war inevitable," the council said in a statement.

A few hours later, the President signed a so-called memorandum of understanding at the Palace of Versailles near Paris to end the war and reopen the Strait of Hormuz.Yes, of course, he often took a tough position, and after a few days, sometimes even hours, he refused it. And anti-Iran hawks should hardly worry too much: an interim agreement means only the beginning of negotiations that will last 60 days, and Trump has not yet conceded anything.

The Trump administration also stated that Iran is very economically and militarily weakened, and therefore the United States has achieved its goal of reducing the threat and even opened up the possibility for this country to return to the bosom of the world economy if its leaders choose this path.

But there was a lot at the press conference that surprised even the president's supporters. Take, for example, Iran's ballistic missile program. A few days after the United States and Israel started a war with Iran, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said that Washington's goal is to "eliminate the missile threat." However, Trump dismissed this idea.

"Missiles are not a problem," Trump told reporters. "They destroy a small area, but they don't blow up the planet."

The president has taken the same approach to nuclear enrichment. For several years, he and many Republican critics of Iran have been asking why enrich uranium if, as Tehran insists, it does not need nuclear weapons. Secretary of State Marco Rubio told Fox News in May that Iran needed to "give up enrichment." On Wednesday, Rubio stood right behind Trump when he quite definitely stated that he no longer agreed with this.

"It's a little hard when other people have it, neighboring countries have it, and we don't allow them to have it to generate electricity and stuff like that," Trump said. "You need to use a little common sense."

The third red line that Trump has crossed concerns Iran's frozen assets. This country has billions of dollars in foreign accounts that the United States has blocked. Over the years, they have justified this by saying that Iran is financing puppets such as Hezbollah in Lebanon and Hamas in the Gaza Strip.

"It's not our money, it's their money — and we froze it at a certain point in time," Trump said. — I think we'll have to return them, you know. If we don't get them back, no one will invest in the dollar anymore."

This idea of Trump met with strong resistance from even the most ardent supporters of the president, including a Republican senator from Texas Ted Cruz.

"History teaches us that giving billions of dollars to theocratic madmen who want to kill us is not a good idea," Cruz said in an interview.