The media have staked all their prestige on Trump losing the war. They have much at stake. But when Trump says that an agreement is within reach and that it will entail Iran abandoning its nuclear programme, they are faced with a defeat they cannot escape. NTB has consistently said that Iran does not have a nuclear programme, that it was scrapped long ago. Steven Witkoff says the Iranians were sitting there boasting that they have enough uranium for 11 nuclear bombs. One of them is lying.
One of the weaknesses of the media’s coverage has been that they treat Iran’s clerical regime as a rational actor. A regime that sacrifices its own people in order to continue digging tunnels, producing rockets and enriching uranium is not rational. The media said that the protests in January were economic. That is a trivialisation of the fact that the regime has neglected matters for so many years that there is now water shortage, power outages and inflation of 70 per cent. The people are fully aware of where the money has gone: to weapons programmes and foreign adventures.
Astronomical sums have gone to Hizbollah, Hamas and the Houthis. The Iranians know this.
When they took to the streets to protest, they were cut down. That was the ultimate conclusion: their physical bodies and lives do not matter either.
Such a regime cannot be allowed to acquire nuclear weapons. Trump is absolutely clear on that. But not the Europeans.
Trump now says that they stand on the verge of a breakthrough. Iran will abandon its nuclear programme and hand over the 440 kilos of enriched uranium.
The Norwegian News Agency (NTB) issues a report that reeks of distrust and unwillingness. Aftenposten’s Tor Arne Andreassen is not much better. They report a piece of news they do not wish to acknowledge.
The stock markets rose sharply both in New York and Asia on Wednesday and Thursday. Andreassen:
US President Donald Trump may have contributed to the optimism by claiming to Fox Business that the war “would be over very soon”.
May? When antipathy governs news reporting, such results arise.
There is an interesting detail in the article, which is taken from The New York Times. Not only did the Pakistani army chief travel to Tehran with a message from Trump. Another delegation visited Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Turkey.
Army chief Asim Munir on Wednesday led a Pakistani delegation to Tehran to deliver a message from the United States. The same day, Pakistan’s Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif embarked on a four-day journey to Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Turkey. The aim was to gather international support for the peace effort.
It sounds as though Pakistan is on a UN mission to gather support for a peacekeeping operation.
They are acting on behalf of the President of the United States to force Iran to its knees. Sunni Muslim Pakistan does not want the Shia theocracy to acquire nuclear weapons either. They are too unstable and unpredictable.
What can be the reason that the media in recent weeks have presented Trump as unpredictable and mad? According to rhetoric lecturer at Kristiania University College, Kjell Terje Ringdal, he is mentally like a three-year-old.
– Trump is like a three-year-old who receives no correction and has no upbringing, adds Ringdal. (NTB)
In order to maintain this perception, all his victories must be ridiculed.
But the Iran war is too large for that to be possible. If Trump succeeds in tying together Iran and Hizbollah in such a way that Lebanon finally achieves peace, he will have defeated both the ayatollah regime and liberal media that hate him more intensely than ever. They fear that he will succeed.
The method they employ is to define Trump on their own premises while pretending to refer to Trump. Thus Trump emerges as something entirely different from what he says. They replace the context.
Trump claimed on Wednesday that the United States and Israel had ensured “regime change” in Iran and that the new leaders were “quite sensible”. This is a message he and the White House have attempted to sell over the past two to three weeks. But experts instead believe that the killings of many of Iran’s leaders have led to the opposite. The killings are said to have opened the way for new, more extreme leaders who have shown little interest in political compromise domestically or internationally.
If there has been regime change in Iran, it has been for the worse, according to The Wall Street Journal.
Trump appears as an idiot. But everyone who follows Trump knows that this is part of his method: to shift emphasis, perspective, to play upon the public and the opponent. It is a highly refined game. But the media are unable to see it. They are infatuated with their own hatred of Trump.
From Espen Barth Eide to Akersgata, the aim has throughout been to present the war as a violation of international law, and a quagmire from which the United States will not emerge. An asymmetric war that Iran wins simply by surviving, as Barth Eide says.
They were also against the action against Venezuela. Venezuela will now receive loans from the International Monetary Fund again so that it can repay some of its debt. Will there ever be an acknowledgement from the media and politicians such as Barth Eide that Trump is a unique politician?
The results will speak for themselves.
We are now seeing the outlines of a future in which it is not the media that write Trump’s legacy. That is what they have always believed they would do. If nothing else, they were to have the final word.
But it appears that Trump deprives them even of that possibility. Trump outsmarts them all. It will be Trump who writes their epitaph.
BBC and the Scandinavia state broadcasters NRK, SR and DR will not survive a Trump victory. Journalists must be replaced, leadership must go. So grave is the betrayal they have committed over ten years. It is an undermining of their mandate, of their public service which is paid for by the taxpayers.
The regime is crumbling
Aftenposten has the writing on the wall, but is unable to place it in the proper context.
Aftenposten’s sources describe Tehran as a city under a state of emergency, with checkpoints, hunts for critics, hunger and desperation.
The structure and cohesion are gone. This is a regime that manoeuvres from day to day, in search of rescue. But in order to survive, it must relinquish the most important thing it has: the dream of nuclear bombs, rockets and proxy militias that could have made Iran a regional great power.
It was Obama who was willing to grant Iran that role.
The Sunni states balked. They would never accept a Shia theocracy with nuclear weapons. That was already clear when the JCPOA agreement was concluded.
But the media never told the world about their reaction. Instead, they began to disparage Saudi Arabia, and Biden called it a pariah state.
This disparagement from the Democrats and the State Department caused Trump to be perceived as a hero already in his first term.
What was the first thing he did? He went to Saudi Arabia. He moved the embassy to Jerusalem. He created the Abraham Accords. Trump has had peace in mind all along. But in order to achieve it, he had to defeat Iran.
All the Obamas and Barth Eides of the world preferred the axis of resistance – Hamas, Hizbollah, the Houthis and Iran – rather than that Trump should succeed.
This war has been ongoing for ten years. It has not been described in the media because they do not wish to acknowledge that they are waging war against the revitalisation of American democracy. They do not write a single word about the revelations of Obama’s intrigues against Trump. When he won in 2016, both Obama and Susan Rice burst into tears.
This Monday, the Director of National Intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, revealed that the intelligence community’s inspector general, Michael Atkinson, concealed information that the whistleblower behind the first impeachment, Eric Ciaramella, was politically heavily compromised and had no first-hand knowledge behind the allegations against Trump. The entire impeachment was built on falsehood. It is another turn of the carousel that began with Russia collusion.
Former CIA agent John Keriakou said on Hannity’s podcast that he believes he was a test case for the defamation of Trump. CIA chief John Brennan wanted a case against Keriakou, but received the reply: There is nothing on which to build a case. – Charge him anyway, Brennan replied.
That was how Obama and his people operated.
Nevertheless, Norway’s supposedly right wing opposition party (FrP leader Sylvi Listhaug tells tabloid VG that the United States is on the wrong course. She sides with those who say that democracy in the United States is being dismantled. This is no trifle. It is a matter of being or not being for Europe.
As historical documentation, we reproduce the night’s dispatch from NTB on the possibility that Trump will prevail. It is not possible to discern that this is what it is about.
US President Donald Trump says Iran has committed not to possess nuclear weapons for several decades. They are also said to have been willing to hand over enriched uranium.
The American president says that Iran has agreed to a number of concessions, although this has not been confirmed by Iran.
– Iran is willing to do much now that it has not been willing to do previously, says Trump, who stopped and spoke with a number of journalists on his way aboard Marine One.
Among other things, he says that Iran has agreed not to have nuclear weapons, in the form of a “very powerful statement” that lasts longer than 20 years.
– They have agreed to give back the nuclear dust, says Trump, a term he uses for the stockpiles of enriched uranium that the United States believes can be used to build nuclear weapons.
Iran itself has for a long time rejected that it is developing nuclear weapons and denied the accusations from the United States and Israel. Instead, it has said that the nuclear programme has always had civilian purposes.
US President Donald Trump says that “a lot of progress” is being made with regard to Iran. He says there may be a meeting between the United States and Iran during the weekend.
The American president says that “Iran has agreed to almost everything” and also expresses willingness to travel to Pakistan’s capital Islamabad if a possible peace agreement is reached there.
– There is a very good chance that we will reach an agreement, says Trump.
The text is AI-generated. The term is admissions, not concessions. The abandonment of the nuclear programme is called “a very powerful statement”, a clear AI error.
The potentially sensational news is toned down so that the editorial offices do not “see” it. The same with Aftenposten.
What Iran loses at the negotiating table, they win in the editorial offices.
Media that rely on manipulation and the confusion of the public have no right to exist.