Top 10 of the US presidential elections: why Donald Trump and Iran hate each other | World news

America’s spies still tell stories about their comically disastrous attempts to assassinate Fidel Castro, a man so unkillable that he outlived virtually all his obituary writers. Some of the CIA’s more absurd efforts include exploding cigars, incompetent mafia members, femme non-fatales and LSD. Unfortunately, Castro continued to give seven-hour speeches and lived to be ninety years old.
The recent revelations about an Iranian attempt to assassinate Donald Trump read like a laundry list, led by a Pakistani national named Asif traderwho was apparently paid a million dollars to depose Trump. Merchant, who was not a Jackal, was stopped on his way to the airport. The merchant’s code words include sartorial code words including a t-shirt (the protest to distract), the flannel shirt (stealing), and a fleece jacket (murder). Despite the clumsiness of the plot, American officials considered it a serious threat.
Iran’s complicated relationship with the US dates back to when the US and Britain overthrew Mosaddeq in a coup. There was the ouster of the Shah of Iran, the hostage rescue effort that inspired Argo, George Bush’s Axis of Evil speech, Obama’s attempt to normalize relations, and most recently Trump ordered a drone attack to kill people. Qasem Soleimanithe commander of the Quds Force who was described as a combination of James Bond and Christina Aguilera. But where does Donald Trump connect all this? It seems like the hate story is coming along Iran began in 1980, the first time the New York socialite made a public comment on foreign policy when he expressed his disgust at the Iran hostage crisis and could not understand how a powerful country like the US could allow it. Perhaps the key to understanding Trump’s view of Iran is the Freudian view of how the human brain works.
Sigmund Freud’s famous model of brain function includes three entities: the id, the ego, and the superego. It is most commonly explained using the chariot analogy: the id is the horse that can run and is responsible for our basic drives and desires. The ego is the charioteer, the rational part of our brain, which can guide the horse, but can never completely control it. The superego is the charioteer’s father, who points out his mistakes and guides him, the part of the brain responsible for criticizing and moralizing.

Trump, on the other hand, seems to be an amalgamation of all three, an amalgamation of id, ego and superego, the horse, the charioteer and the charioteer’s father, where he cannot fathom a world that would challenge his worldview, and once he becomes president became the American worldview. Any disagreement was not seen as a profound criticism of himself and the country he loved, and that was now woven into his psyche. As POTUS, Trump withdrew from the Iran nuclear dealciting the country’s inadequacy in addressing Iran’s regional activities and ballistic missile program. The Trump administration also carried out a “maximum pressure campaign” targeting vital sectors of the Iranian economy, particularly the oil and financial sectors, which, to its fury, failed to broker a new, tougher nuclear deal or address the behavior of Iran changed, but caused significant hardship in Iran. .
In January 2020, Trump authorized a drone strike that killed General Qassem Soleimani, the head of Iran’s Quds Force. This marked a dramatic escalation Tensions between the US and Iran. Trump justified the strike by claiming Soleimani was planning attacks on US interests. Trump’s Iran policy seemed to be based on flexing muscles and, in the case of the Soleimani strike, demonstrating how things would go if it wasn’t his way. Iran, understandably accustomed to no dissent on its own turf, viewed Trump as both unpredictable and uncontrollable and appears to have left no stone unturned – with the exception of those they reserve for stoning women without headscarves – to try to stop Trump to neutralize.
While Iran has carried out missile attacks on US bases in Iraq, they also waged an extensive disinformation campaign about Trump, including running several “liberal” sound news websites that mocked Trump (opioid pilled elephant in the MAGA China store) and leaked internal documents about Trump and those close to him, including JD Vance. According to numerous reports, the hackathon is still going on.
Iran knows that Trump’s return would be rather bad news, which unlike the Biden administration makes little pretense of wanting to normalize relations. Although he might be inclined to do so if a Nobel Peace Prize were at stake, the current conflation of id, ego, and superego prevents him from doing so. Trump’s return portends renewed economic isolation and a greater risk of military confrontation, especially when it comes to Iran’s nuclear advances.
There is a school of thought that sees Hamas’s October 7 terrorist attack on Israel as part of Iran’s efforts to destabilize any thawing of relations between US allies Israel and Saudi Arabia, which would have put Tehran on the back foot. Trump’s return would mean even more support for Israel in the Middle East. Iran has always viewed all American regimes with great suspicion, but with Trump there is the added complication that he does not know what he is going to do. Regardless of who wins the election, it is unlikely that the relationship between Trump and Iran will suffer the same fate as that of Inspector Captain Louis Renault and Rick Blaine: it will certainly not be the start of a beautiful friendship.
It is fair to say that the Iranian regime, even more than the Democrats, is concerned about a Trump return.