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On the morning of March 7, President Trump posted to social media that Iran had “surrendered to its Middle East neighbors, and promised that it will not shoot at them anymore.” Trump appears to be reacting to remarks recorded on March 6, but released very early on Saturday morning March 7], by Masoud Pezeshkian, Iran’s president. Pezeshkian apologized for Iranian attacks on the neighboring Gulf Arab states with drones and missiles since the Israeli-American war on the Islamic Republic began last week. Pezeshkian claimed that Iran’s leadership had ordered an end to those attacks. It is unclear whether anything has changed: Air-raid sirens signaling incoming missiles and drones rang out in Qatar and Bahrain after Pezeshkian’s declaration. That might signal that the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) is not on board with Pezeshkian’s promise.
Hamidreza Moghadamfar, a commander of the IRGC, claimed that the Islamic Republic was targeting U.S. interests, not the countries in which they are located. This is nonsense from the IRGC’s Hamidrea Moghadamfar: Iranian drones and missiles have hit civilian airports, hotels, apartment buildings, and oil refineries in Bahrain, the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and Oman have all been hit by. Such wide-ranging attacks show that the countries themselves, and not just the American military bases they have hosted, have been targeted by Iran.
The Iranian attacks on both the airbase in the UAE and the huge oilfield in Saudi Arabia took place after President Pezeshkian announced that Iran would no longer be hitting any of its Gulf Arab neighbors as long as the Americans launched no attacks from their territories. It is reasonable to assume that the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps has no intention of complying with Pezeshkian’s assurances to Iran’s neighbors.He appear to have been speaking only for himself. Within just the last few minutes on Saturday afternoon came the news that both Qatar and the UAE report having been attacked by missiles and drones, while Saudi Arabia says that a missile launched towards a military base was intercepted.
I’d call that conclusive evidence that the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps is running the show, and President Masoud Pezeshkian speaks only for himself, a vox clamantis in deserto.
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