Trump's reckless gamble makes it 'more' a case for Iran to have nuclear weapon ::::: US Prez fallen slap bang into the trap laid by Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu

Trump is now an isolationist president 

Donald Trump has fallen slap bang into the trap laid for him by Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu. 

US President's reckless gamble makes a nuclear weapon for Iran more, not less, likely. 

The US President Trump’s rash, reckless gamble will inflame and exacerbate multiple problems. Depending on how Iran and its allies and supporters react, the region could plunge into an uncontrolled conflagration. 

US bases in the Persian Gulf and elsewhere in the region, home to about 40,000 American troops, must now be considered potential targets for retaliation – and possibly British and allied forces, too.  

Bombing will not make Iran go away. 

US bombs will not destroy the knowhow needed to build a nuclear weapon or the will do so, if that is what Tehran wants. The huge attack ordered by Donald Trump will not halt ongoing open warfare between Israel and Iran. It will not bring lasting peace to the Middle East, end the slaughter in Gaza, deliver justice to the Palestinians, or end more than half a century of bitter enmity between Tehran and Washington.  

Trump, the isolationist president who vowed to avoid foreign wars, has walked slap bang into a trap prepared by Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu – a trap his smarter predecessors avoided. Netanyahu has constantly exaggerated the immediacy of the Iranian nuclear threat. His alarmist speeches on this subject go back 30 years. 

Always, he claimed to know what UN nuclear inspectors, US and European intelligence agencies and even some of his own spy chiefs did not – namely, that Iran was on the verge of deploying a ready-to-use nuclear weapon aimed at Israel’s heart.

If Iran goes ahead and shuts down the Strait of Hormuz, through which 20 per cent of daily global oil consumption passes, it would disrupt trade flows, send oil prices shooting up and potentially destabilising the global economy.  

Such a move could further create instability in the Middle East, which has been witnessing escalating tensions in the past 20 months, following Israel's wars with Hamas and Hezbollah in Gaza and Lebanon and the conflict with Iran, and the fall of the long-time autocratic President Bashar al-Assad in Syria.

WHAT IS STRAIT OF HORMUZ AND ITS SIGNIFICANCE?

The Strait of Hormuz is a narrow but vitally important waterway that connects the Persian Gulf to the Gulf of Oman and the Arabian Sea. It lies between Iran on the north coast and the Musandam Peninsula - which belongs to Oman and the United Arab Emirates - on the south.