Double play from the White House
Donald Trump returned to the fray today. Their target: Iran. On his social network, he sent a strong message about the economic situation of the Persian country.
“Iran is collapsing financially. They want the Strait of Hormuz to be reopened immediately, they are out of money! They lose 500 million dollars a day. Military and police complain of not being paid. SOS!”, he stated.
This is no coincidence. It happens as the administration tries to advance an agreement with Tehran, amid complex negotiations and internal divisions within the regime itself.
A short deadline and a lot of uncertainty
According to information from Axios, Trump would have given a limited ultimatum to the conflicting Iranian factions: “another three to five days of ceasefire” to align around a negotiating proposal.
The truce is not indefinite. And a huge question remains: who really has the authority to close a deal in Tehran?
“We have detected an absolute fracture within Iran between negotiators and the military, without any of the parties having access to the Supreme Guide, which does not respond,” said an official quoted by the portal.
While pressing numbers, Trump also changes the record. Last night he reappeared from the Oval Office with a message with a strong symbolic and religious charge.
In front of the camera, he read a passage from the Old Testament. He recited a fragment from the Second Book of Chronicles linked to divine forgiveness.
The video, recorded with an open Bible on his desk, comes a few days after his public confrontation with the pope and criticism from evangelical sectors for a controversial meme.
This double movement—economic pressure on Iran and religious appeal to its electoral base—is not innocent. It reflects a calculated strategy that mixes geopolitics and cultural identity at a time of high international sensitivity.
Everything happens within the framework of the celebrations for the founding anniversary of the United States and the America Reads the Bible initiative. For Trump, this book “is inextricably linked to our national identity.”
The question that remains is clear: will this combination of economic cudgels and biblical symbolism manage to move the needle in such fragile negotiations? History suggests that with Iran, nothing is simple.
