US-Iran Relations and Trump's Role

US obsession with Iran goes back to the fall of the Shah of

Persia, who was one of the main pillars of

US so-called foreign policy in the Middle East.

And when that came down in 1979, the

US has never really recovered its sense,

its, its equilibrium, if you like, its power in the

Middle East. It wants Iran back. If not back, it

wants to deny Iran the independence of the Iranian

state. Now, why Trump in particular is obsessed

with this, I don't know. But why shouldn't he be?

He's an American president. He's doing what American presidents always

do. The fact that he's Trump, uh, uh,

then causes apoplexy in the media and the

intelligence agencies and so on, for the very good reason that

he's exposed America without a mask.

America and the presidency without a mask is

Trump. He's a caricature, and he does what he

wants to do