Published 14:33 IST, January 4th 2020
Netizens dig out several tweets of Trump claiming Obama would attack Iran for re-election
Netizens spent no time in digging out several old tweets of Trump where he had predicted an attack on Iran, to be ordered by the then US President Barack Obama.
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After United States anunced killing of he of Iran’s elite Quds Force, General Qassem Soleimani, experts suggested that Washington’s action risked war in Gulf region. Soleimani, a powerful military leer in Iran, oversaw unconventional warfares in Middle East to spre Shiite influence before he got killed in a drone strike at Baghd’s international airport, ordered by US President Donald Trump.
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re were apprehensions about motive of Trump ministration to carry out such attacks since US President is facing a re-election campaign. Though Trump asserted that it was a preemptive action to prevent deaths of more Americans as Iranian General was planning “imminent and sinister attack”, many people tried to connect it with presidential elections due in 2020.
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Netizens find several tweets
Twitteratis spent time in digging out old tweets of Trump where he h predicted an attack on Iran, to be ordered by n US President Barack Obama for re-election. In a tweet dated October 10, 2012, Trump said that Obama is desperate to get re-elected and he can launch an attack on Iran or Libya.
But Obama never started a war with Iran and rar sealed 2015 nuclear deal and followed it by lifting ecomic sanctions. On or hand, Trump ministration withdrew from deal and imposed crippling sanctions on Iran which heightened tension between two countries.
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14:33 IST, January 4th 2020