(In his speech last week, he threatened to bomb Iran “back to the Stone Ages, where they belong.”) At Monday’s news conference, he said that Iran would take 100 years to recover from the attack that will begin Tuesday at 8 p.m. Eastern time if Iran doesn’t open the Strait of Hormuz. The Iranian people, many of whom despise their government, also have a deep dread of foreign intervention, and while many cheered Trump’s initial airstrikes against Tehran’s rulers, his relentless attacks since—and his threats to rain down hell and bomb Iran back to the Stone Age (as well as the implicit contempt he holds for Iran by saying that the Stone Age is where it belongs)—could rally the people to their country’s defense. When Trump started bombing Iran, he thought the war would be as brief and victorious as his recent operation in Venezuela—and was surprised (as was his secretary of defense, Pete Hegseth) that the Iranians resisted (even though his intelligence advisers and the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff had warned that they would).
Author: Fred Kaplan
Published at: 2026-04-06 21:23:07
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