TEHRAN – The world is asking why the United States and Israel started an unwarranted war against Iran. The world was surprised that the war began while the talks were underway between Iran and the U.S.

Donald Trump who was claiming he had “obliterated” Iran’s nuclear program during the 12-day war against Iran in June 2025, why did he decide to suddenly attack Iran again in coordination with the Israeli war criminal Benjamin Netanyahu?

The world is seeking answer for this irrational and unprovoked war that has so far caused many deaths that many of them constitute examples of war crime and crimes against humanity, as well as tens of billions of dollars in damages and great environmental mishaps. 

The war has even dealt a great blow to civil society in Iran and made the people’s economic problems worse.  

The war on Iran has given credit to the words of those who say the law of jungle is dominant in the world. 

Trump’s National Counterterrorism Center director Joe Kent, who resigned his post in protest to the war on March 18, wrote on X that “Iran posed no imminent threat to our nation.”

He said, “I cannot in good conscience support the ongoing war in Iran.” 

Netanyahu and Trump’s deep hatred of Iran is incomprehensible. While the entire world greatly lauded the multilateral 2015 nuclear deal with Iran during Barack Obama’s presidency,

Trump, then the Republican presidential nominee, called it “the worst deal in history” and a “disaster” and threatened to tear it up is he won presidency. Netanyahu also described it as a “historic mistake” and pushed Trump to rescind it. 

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio claims that Iran is ruled by “radical Shia clerics” but it is his boss that is a puppet of extremist Christians and Zionists. 

Writing an article in Middle East Eye on April 5, former Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said,  “The Netanyahu-Trump alignment, supported by Zionist and Christian-Zionist ideological networks, has replaced geopolitical rationality with a theopolitical war logic.”

Davutoglu, a political theorist, also believes the world is not convinced about the logic of this war.   

“Today, both the American public and much of the world are asking a simple question: by what logic did U.S. President Donald Trump follow Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu into a war with unclear objectives and potentially catastrophic consequences?”

Davutoglu, who was foreign minister from 2009 to 2014, says, “This war is not grounded in geopolitical rationality but in a form of theopolitical irrationality.”

In his resignation letter on X, Kent also said, “It is clear that we started this war due to pressure from Israel and its powerful American lobby.”

The world, including Washington’s allies in the West and the East, are noticing that the U.S. is being ruled by a mindless bully.

As the ideologically-driven Netanyahu says he feels he has a divine mission to create a greater Israel, Trump is also thinking of expanding the U.S. territory. Describing Cananda as the 51st American state and threatening to capture Greenland by force if necessary are clear examples. Likewise, he has a covetous eye on the oil riches of countries it considers adversary.

Just on Monday, April 6, Trump said he would like to “take” Iran’s oil but Americans, whom he called “foolish”, want to see the war brought to a close.

“Unfortunately, the American people would like to see us come home. If it were up to me, I’d take the oil, I’d keep the oil, it would bring plenty of money,” he shockingly told reporters at the annual White House Easter egg roll.

Allies rebuff Trump’s appeal for help 

Despite all the bravo about his handling of war on Iran, Trump sees himself in a quandary and makes confusing and insulting remarks. 

First, he imagined that the war on Iran would last just a few days. He still fails to understand that any nation that comes under illegal and cruel war it will react strongly.  It is for this reason that former Iranian President Mohammad Khatami, who proposed “dialogue among civilizations” and is internationally famous as a thinking and moderate person, said on April 6 that “In this critical situation, I kiss the hands and arms of the warriors and defenders of dignity, independence, and territorial integrity who have become a source of pride for our country and respect for the free people of the world.”

Now that Iran has closed the Strait of Hormuz to oil and gas tankers in response to this unlawful war, he is pressing American allies and other countries around the world to help open the strategic waterway that is the conduit for a fifth of the global oil and gas supplies. He has caused the closure the transit route but wants others to open it. Trump speaks and behaves in a way as if the entire world is owed to him.

Now many countries in the world, including American allies or friends, see Trump him as a bully and unpredictable person who may one day fall victim to his rash behaviors.  His threats against Canada and Greenland proved that Trump does not make a distinction between a friend and a foe. He only cares about his Zionist inspirers. For example, in his remarks on April 6, he again castigated Obama for the 2015 nuclear deal and claimed “Obama chose Iran over Israel”.

That allies have refused to join Trump’s war of choice is that they are not convinced why this war began and don’t want to put the lives of their soldiers in jeopardy.

Britain, a country that was considered the closest U.S. ally in Europe, has rebuffed Trump’s plea to join the war to open the Strait of Hormuz. 

Facing weeks of taunts from Trump over London’s stance on the war, British Prime Minister Keir Starmer told a press conference on April 1, “Whatever the pressure on me and others, whatever the noise, I'm going to act in the British national interest.”

Starmer signaled that his country will pivot towards the EU.  He said building stronger economic and defense ties with Europe would be at the center of an EU-UK summit in Brussels in the summer, describing the move as “in our long-term national interest”.

Kaja Kallas, the European Union chief diplomat, also told Trump: "It is not our war. We did not start it.” In a post on social media, she also said, “It is TRUMP'S WAR AND NETANJAHU'S

WAR."
Trump’s reckless moves and approaches is even pushing Europeans to rethink their military dependence on the U.S. 

The more the world feels the economic pains of the war due to the closure of the Strait of Hormuz and the crimes being committed it becomes more hatful of Trump, his inner circle and the Israeli prime minister.  

And the world will keep asking the reasons for the start of this unprovoked and unwarranted war.

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The B1 bridge was damaged in U.S.-Israeli strikes in Karaj on April 3, 2026