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President Donald Trump has been holding urgent talks with his national security team as the conflict between Israel and Iran escalates In a post online Trump threatened Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei We know exactly where the so-called supreme leader is hiding He is an easy target, but a safe is safe there.

We're not going to take him out at least not for now He went on to call for Tehran's Unconditional surrender warning u.s.

Patience is wearing thin Ricardo Alcaro joins us from Rome from the Instituto Afri Internationale when the conflict began Trump reportedly rejected an Israeli plan to kill Iran's supreme leader Now he calls how many an easy target?

I I just think that Trump is trying to catch up with events.

He cannot control I think Trump gave sort of what not really green light like an like an amber light to Netanyahu when they spoke before Israel launch launched its attack and the attack the attacks first victim was of course the next round of negotiation of nuclear talks that had been Already between American and Iranian officials in Oman that was supposed to take place on the 15th of June and From then on Trump has been seeing Israel scoring points after points so far the operation has been a dazzling success and He has been adapting.

He wants probably to be part of the victory either by adding the threats against Iran and here is where the direct threat to Ali Khamenei comes that the United States may be involved and therefore force our non-conditional surrender has your set which basically mean the dismantlement of the nuclear program or he will actually join the the bombing and Attack the the last and most important of Iran's nuclear facilities We know of which is the Enrichment Center at Fodo Which is built deep underground and is generally assumed to be To be damageable only with u.s.

So it's Sounding like he's nearing that green light by saying Khamenei easy target the u.s.

Is repositioning warships in the region and military aircraft Yeah, I mean I think we we clearly seeing An intimidation move, which is pretty which is pretty serious But I wouldn't be surprised if the United States eventually join in the fight Because basically it has been Netanyahu has been calling the shots here Netanyahu attacking Israel attacking Iran before Trump could actually say I have exhausted the diplomatic option because the last Nuclear talks round when really bad and now I can I can I have to follow up with my with my threat that There would be consequences military consequences to Iran's diplomatic rigidity by by eliminating this possibility for Trump Netanyahu has gotten control of the events and Trump can only follow so now he may want to join in the fight They might actually even go as far as to Assassinate the political leader of another country But look, it's not that it's not common days that that will put the end to the Islamic Republic Which is now being?

Paralyzed by it is targeted assassinations of its leaders But the Islamic Republic is not is not a pyramidal It's not a pyramid.

It's not a regime Which is only centered on the top So it is a bit too early to assume that by eliminating the the heads The the body will die Ricardo as we both know this conflict has been a couple decades in the making and back in 2012 You warned any preventive Western supported Israeli attack on Iran's nuclear facilities would work against the West's interests Is that still the case more than a decade on with the information we have today Well, it depends on I mean Iran does possess a vast civilian nuclear program Which has always been the source of legitimate concerns because of its potential because of its potential military diversion, but as far as we know and what we know is What the International Atomic Energy Agency says as well as the US intelligence community is that Iran?

Had not taken the decision to weaponize the program that in fact Iran has always Tried to use the nuclear program at least since 2003 when they put an end to what did it to an embryonic military nuclear program?

So since 2003 Iran has always tried to use the nuclear program as leverage for Interacting with its enemies, especially with the United States rather than the base for deterrent So there wasn't any meaning threat to Israel.

This is a preventive not preemptive preventive action by Israel But the the thing Israel wanted to prevent was a nuclear deal that Trump could say Okay to and that Israel didn't like now are there risks for Western countries to join in the in the operation?

Well, there is the risk of joining an aggression I mean, whatever you may think whether it is justified or not from the point of view of Israel This was an unprovoked attack against a sovereign country.

So it is a deep violation of international law so that's a risk in terms of reputation and coherence given that the the Western countries tend to be pretty supportive at work in words of International law and the other risk is we really don't know how this is going to unfold There is okay There is the the outcome of an Israeli victory But there is also an outcome of a protracted conflict and further instability in the region.

We'll have to leave it ever a carto A car or thank you very much for joining us Thank you for having me

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