{"id":187586,"date":"2019-04-29T19:10:12","date_gmt":"2019-04-29T19:10:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=187586"},"modified":"2019-05-03T06:50:34","modified_gmt":"2019-05-03T06:50:34","slug":"iran-appeals-directly-to-trump-your-advisers-dragging-you-into-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=187586","title":{"rendered":"Iran Appeals Directly To Trump: Your Advisers Dragging You Into War"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\">Tyler Durden \u2013 Zero Hedge April 29, 2019<\/h1>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif told Chris Walls on\u00a0<a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/shows\/fox-news-sunday\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Fox News Sunday<\/strong><\/span><\/a><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/span>that he believes President Trump&#8217;s own advisers as well as Middle East allies like Saudi Arabia and Israel are\u00a0<strong>\u201cdragging the United States into a conflict\u201d<\/strong> with Iran.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">It comes just days after\u00a0Zarif made similar statements about the possibility of US and Iranian ships clashing in the Persian Gulf, warning that\u00a0a false flag &#8220;accident&#8221; scenario could &#8220;lure&#8221; Trump into war\u00a0<em>\u2014\u00a0<\/em>something which he thinks Trump himself doesn&#8217;t want to see happen. It appears Tehran&#8217;s new strategy as it reels from the sanctions squeeze on oil and Trump ending the crude export waiver program is to try and <strong>delicately peel Trump away from the American &#8216;deep state&#8217;<\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Zarif specifically named\u00a0National Security Advisor John Bolton, Israel, Saudi Arabia, along with close Saudi ally\u00a0the United Arab Emirates, all as seeking to escalate tensions leading toward a regime change war on Iran.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Wallace\u00a0asked if they\u2019re \u201call trying to exercise regime change?\u201d according to <a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/world\/irans-foreign-minister-zarif-accuses-trump-officials-mideast-allies-of-dragging-us-into-conflict-with-iran\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Fox<\/strong><\/span><\/a>, and Zarif responded, \u201cat least, at least.\u201d Iran&#8217;s top diplomat explained:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">\u201cThey have all shown an interest in dragging the United States into a conflict.<strong> I do not believe that President Trump wants to do that, I believe President Trump ran on a campaign promise of not bringing the United States into another war.<\/strong> But I believe President Trump\u2019s intention to put pressure, the policy of maximum pressure on Iran in order to bring Iran to its knees so that we would succumb to pressure, is <strong>doomed to failure<\/strong>.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Iranian Foreign Minister says 4 key leaders are trying to drag Trump into a conflict with Iran <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/lIAWviy88z\">pic.twitter.com\/lIAWviy88z<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; FoxNewsSunday (@FoxNewsSunday) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FoxNewsSunday\/status\/1122496913788612608?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 28, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Interestingly, it appears Zarif is attempting a direct appeal to Trump and the generally non-interventionist &#8220;bring the troops home&#8221; stance he campaigned on in 2016.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Tehran&#8217;s leaders could be hoping for a Kim Jong Un style approach to Trump. Trump&#8217;s North Korea opening over the past year was marked by a series of\u00a0off the cuff personal appeals and communications that led to one-on-one dialogue and thawing of tensions.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Middle East historian and analyst Asad Abukhalil<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong> <a style=\"color: #ccffff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/asadabukhalil\/status\/1122533487339130881\">noted<\/a> <\/strong><\/span>&#8220;the media blitz by Zarif is clear in its intention: the Iranian regime has decided to negotiate with Trump &#8211;\u00a0with Trump and not with his team. <strong>They think that they can split the administration<\/strong>.&#8221; Professor\u00a0Abukhalil concluded, however, that\u00a0&#8220;The calculation is not irrational but Trump does not see Iran like he sees North Korea.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AmbJohnBolton?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@AmbJohnBolton<\/a> responds to Chris&#39; interview with the Foreign Minister of Iran <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/FNS?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#FNS<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/SundayMorning?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#SundayMorning<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/EqNp2e6B5T\">pic.twitter.com\/EqNp2e6B5T<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; FoxNewsSunday (@FoxNewsSunday) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FoxNewsSunday\/status\/1122496290183577601?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 28, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Soon after the Zarif interviewed aired Sunday morning, John Bolton appeared on Fox to dismiss what he called Iran&#8217;s\u00a0&#8220;carefully prepared propaganda script&#8221;.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">He slammed Zarif for attempting to <strong>&#8220;sow disinformation in the American body politic&#8221;<\/strong>\u00a0<em>\u2014\u00a0<\/em>in an acknowledgement of Iran&#8217;s apparent new strategy to try and split Trump from the &#8220;deep state&#8221; agenda on Iran<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2019-04-28\/iran-appeals-directly-trump-your-advisers-dragging-you-war\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unfortunately we don\u2019t think that Trump will heed the warning as he\u2019s shown himself easily manipulated and beholden to the Zionists <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-187586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-Inside_the_White_House_and_Washingtons_Beltway","category-Iran"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187586","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=187586"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187586\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":187610,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187586\/revisions\/187610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=187586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=187586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=187586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}