Trump was feared to be a target for Iranian agents during his 2024 presidential campaign, a status he says has only ramped up after bombing much of the country
I suspect Trump got some control (how much is real and how much is performative is unclear) of Venezuela by threatenning the surviving Venezuelan leaders with the same fate as Maduro, since the US never sent anywhere enough troops to that country to actually conquer it - actually facing the entire Venezuelan military (and any subsequent guerrilla warfare if they actually won) would be a whole different ball game from a single special ops action.
Since that worked to get some control over Venezuela, I bet that with these threats (and his open threaths on the lives of the current Iraninan leadership and even his starting of the war by taking out the Iranian Supreme Leader) he was basically trying to do the same thing to Iran as he did to Venezuela.
You threatened their negotiators lives at the negotiating table. Fuck all the way off crybully bitch
I suspect Trump got some control (how much is real and how much is performative is unclear) of Venezuela by threatenning the surviving Venezuelan leaders with the same fate as Maduro, since the US never sent anywhere enough troops to that country to actually conquer it - actually facing the entire Venezuelan military (and any subsequent guerrilla warfare if they actually won) would be a whole different ball game from a single special ops action.
Since that worked to get some control over Venezuela, I bet that with these threats (and his open threaths on the lives of the current Iraninan leadership and even his starting of the war by taking out the Iranian Supreme Leader) he was basically trying to do the same thing to Iran as he did to Venezuela.