The Iranian regime is threatened under President Trump for the first time ever, according to one Muslim scholar.
“They’ve had a disastrous outcome to their attempt of intimidating the United States,” Council on Foreign Relations member Qanta Ahmed said Sunday on Fox & Friends. “Their attempts on the embassy in Baghdad failed, they’ve had Qassem Soleimani [figuratively] decapitated, they had to admit that they shot down their own commercial airliner, killing hundreds of people, 83 Iranians, many Iranians have lost multiple family members.”
She added, “I think the Iranians have to ask themselves what else have they concealed.”
Thousands of people have taken to the streets in Iran, calling for the resignation of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei following the crash of a passenger airplane that killed 82 Iranian nationals and 176 people in total. On Friday, Iran admitted it accidentally shot the plane out of the sky after initially blaming a mechanical error.
“It wasn’t just the error,” Ahmed said. “They denied it at first, then finally they’re admitting it, now they want to know what other falsehoods have been fed.”
The same night of the airplane crash, Iran fired off over a dozen ballistic missiles at military bases housing American troops in Iraq, which resulted in no U.S. deaths. Trump afterward said the nation “appears to be standing down” and opened the door for peace negotiations. When asked if she thinks the country will come to the negotiating table, Ahmed was doubtful.
“They would have to deny this regime. I do think this regime, for the first time ever, is seriously threatened. People are saying, ‘The United States is not our enemy. The regime is our enemy,'” she said. “That kind of explicit speech I’ve never encountered.”
