The stick and carrot strategy that Donald Trump is using with Iran is not only being fruitful. With it, in addition, the US president is achieving the opposite effect. The latest round of sanctions announced, against the property of the Supreme Guide and its surroundings, and the prediction that the Iranian Foreign Minister will be the next victim, have outraged Iran.
The anger is not so much for the material damage, but for the symbolic, which means punishing Seyed Ali Khamenei, the highest representative of the Islamic Republic of Iran and the depositary of the political and spiritual legacy of the leader of the Revolution - although Trump, in another of his boasts, confused in front of the cameras to Khamenei with his predecessor, the deceased three decades ago Ruhola Khomeini -.
Something similar happened due to the fact that, according to US media, Mohamed Yavad Zarif could be the next one to be sanctioned. In this case, the punishment could hamper the diplomatic tasks of one of the most valued politicians in Iran. Proof of this is that, when the head of Iranian diplomacy threatened to resign last March, all the threads moved to avoid it.
His office responded quickly to the announcement of the sanctions. "sanctions on the Supreme Leader of Iran and the commander of Iranian diplomacy means the permanent closure of diplomatic channels," foreign spokesman Abbas Mousavi warned in a tweet. "Trump's desperate administration is destroying all the mechanisms established to maintain world peace and security," he said.
On Tuesday, Iranian President Hasan Rohani has joined criticism of Trump's decision. " We are not afraid of the United States," he said , defining his current position as "strategic patience." "But this patience has nothing to do with being afraid," he warned, recalling the demolition of an American drone last week.
The head of the Iranian Executive went further and, tarting the tone of his usual measured speech, called the tenant of the White House "mentally retarded." An insult in keeping with current times, in which the moderates of Iranian power are forced to go to extremes, influenced by external and internal pressure. The US, with its strategy, is invigorating the rigorist, more recalcitrant field.
Observers stress that, with his decision to sanction individuals who are a reference in multiple sectors of the Iranian population, including critics of the system, Donald Trump hinders the possibility of selling at home the possibility of establishing bridges of dialogue with Washington. Meanwhile, the "economic war", which is how Iran calls the draconian sanctions that have impoverished the population for a year , persists as the escalation of tension between Iran and the US, in the absence of diplomacy.
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