Dr. Hisham Hamdan, a former diplomat and expert on American affairs, said that the recent threats by US President Donald Trump to target power plants and palaces in Iran "open the door to open confrontations," considering that this is "natural" and that the United States "has had enough experience with the Iranian leadership."
Hamdan added, during an intervention via Al-Qahera Al-Ikhbariya channel, that such statements "were always issued" when Iran was in a state of weakness and fragility, feeling harmed by those attacks, "but now" Trump has become "clear" and said that negotiations with Iran "are past their time."
He explained that the existing minds in Iran are "rigid minds" and "possess a culture of war, a culture of death, and a culture of ideology" that does not want, allow, or desire to join or engage in the new international order, which includes the United Nations concept of friendly relations among peoples.
Hamdan stressed that "statements are one thing and reality is another," pointing out that he is among those who "lived through Iranian statements for years and years," but "we saw the reality on the ground completely different."
