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It is not clear if US president Donald Trump intended to lie and knowingly depart from the truth in his formal primetime address to the nation last Wednesday (April 1) in America – his first in over a month since he launched a military assault on Iran in dubious Israel’s company.

All the same, in an effort to catalogue his adversary Iran’s supposed crimes unto the US, the president has been glaringly unfaithful to known and acknowledged facts. The foremost among these is the sinking of the US guided-missile destroyer the USS Cole. This was attributed to Iran by the president. However, an investigation by the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) concluded at the time that it was al-Qaeda, with which Iran’s Shia theocracy has in fact always been at odds, that hit the US warship anchored in Aden (Yemen) for refuelling in October 2000.

The president’s 20-minute address also dwelt on the question of why the US was attacking Iran in the first place when it was not a question of oil since he boasted that his country had greater oil and gas reserves than Russia and Saudi Arabia taken together – and if recently captured Venezuela was thrown into the equation then the US is veritably the Croesus of hydrocarbons.

For its ridiculousness, Trump’s answer to the question he poses is for the ages. He said he decided to launch a military assault on Iran for the sake of his........

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