Preposterous liar again caught on the wrong foot

The US president is an untrustworthy, unreliable and unprincipled person, notorious for his untruths, who resorts to every conceivable distortion of facts and realities, but who always gets unmasked when his falsities end in failure, as was evident in the recent non-event in the Persian Gulf when his dream of downing an Iranian drone boomeranged badly upon him.

Thanks to the ever-alert guardians of the Islamic Republic whose eagle eyes cannot escape even the minutest incident in this vital waterway where in order to ensure navigation security they accurately monitor movement of all vessels, including the illegal entry of the American fleet.

Stay with us for the opinions expressed in this regard by two of Iran’s English language dailies ‘Kayhan International’ and ‘Tehran Times’.

First we present you the Viewpoint Column of Kayhan International, titled: “Preposterous Liar Again Caught on the Wrong Foot.”

Kayhan International said: “Donald Trump is a preposterous liar. So shamelessly does the US president utter lie after lie that he has no consideration for the declining dignity of the post over which he presides by pretending to be the most powerful person in the world.

“Trump also has no concern for the constantly crashing credibility of the United States of America, neither for the miserable fate awaiting him once he is no longer in office, nor for his eventual descent into the abysmal depths of the eternal inferno because of his desecration of the fundamental tenets of the Christian Bible which he claims to follow and which regards the uttering of lie as a cardinal sin – as mentioned in verse 44, Chapter 8 of the Gospel of St. John:

"You are of your father the devil, and you want to do the desires of your father, he was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the truth because there is no truth in him; whenever he speaks a lie, he speaks from his own nature, for he is a liar and the father of lies.” (Gospel of St. John 8:44)

“Irrespective of the ten-thousand-odd documented lies of Donald Trump since becoming president in 2016, here we mention his latest lie pertaining to the crisis he has kicked up with the Islamic Republic.

“Frustrated at the failure of his ludicrous lie of June 20 that he called off at the last moment to avoid loss of innocent life the orders he had allegedly given for an air strike on Iran following Iran’s decisive downing of the ‘RQ 4A Black Hawk’ – the US radar/missile evading most sophisticated and expensive high altitude spy drone which violated Iranian airspace – he again glibly lied last Thursday by alleging:

"The amphibious assault ship ‘USS Boxer’ had to take defensive action in the international waters of the Strait of Hormuz and destroy an Iranian drone which despite warnings to stay away had come within a thousand yards with an intention to attack.”

Kayhan International pointed out: “No sooner had this habitual liar uttered his umpteenth lie of the past few days his words were exposed to the whole world as a set of laughable lies as Iran released a 7-minute video footage of its drone’s accurately monitoring of the movements of the "USS Boxer” and its support vessels including an aircraft carrier before returning safely to base.

To quote General Abolfazl Shekari: “all Iranian drones in the Persian Gulf and the Strait of Hormuz, including the one which the US president mentions, were safely back at their bases after carrying out scheduled identification and control missions.”

“To the embarrassment of Donald Trump and his team of thugs, Iran’s Deputy Foreign Minister Seyyed Abbas Araqhchi immediately tweeted: “We have not lost any drone in the Strait of Hormuz nor anywhere else. I am worried that the USS Boxer has shot down perhaps its own UAS (Unmanned Aerial System) by mistake!”

“Even BBC in its analysis exposed the US president’s claim as possibly untrue when experts pointed out – that unlike Iran’s display last month of the wreckage of the Black Hawk retrieved from Iranian coastal waters, along with complete details – the USS Boxer has neither provided any particulars of the type of drone it claims to have shot down nor any of its wreckage, or for that matter footage of the incident.”

“Thus, caught on the wrong foot yet again, on Friday night Trump sheepishly said that what he had claimed a day earlier of the incident was fed to him by his National Security Advisor (the bespectacled bozo, John Bolton) through unidentified Pentagon sources, which means the US president, as usual, had lied.”

Kayhan International said: “Analysts also dismiss Trump’s last month’s claim of concern for Iranian lives in cancelling his supposed order for attack, by pointing out that first and foremost the US president, who is waging economic terrorism against Iran through sanctions after violating the international nuclear accord, has no concern for human life.

“Secondly, Trump and his administration, including his military brass, is in a state of shock and at a total loss to predict the decisive response from the Islamic Republic to any military misadventure, as has been forewarned by third parties aware of the defence capabilities of Iran.

“Perhaps this was the reason the ‘Boxer’ boxed down one of its own drones in confusion, or as a deliberate act of ‘friendly fire’, in a vain bid to portray Iran as aggressive, in a region which is Iran’s own neighbourhood and where the real aggressors are the CENTCOM terrorists, who have so far sabotaged 6 oil tankers in the Gulf of Oman and have no right to be in this part of the world.

“This means, lies, coupled with provocations by the un-Christian ‘dyed in the wool’ pro-Zionist administration of the US, which includes such devilish elements as Mike Pence, Mike Pompeo, and John Bolton, will continue against the Islamic Republic of Iran, its peaceful IAEA-confirmed nuclear project, its highly efficient missile defence technology, and its allies in the region, but to no avail.

“With faith in God Almighty, Iran and the Iranian people by their adherence to the ultimate truth and their aversion to falsities, will definitely come out with flying colours and in a far stronger position from this latest episode in the 40-year long unabated hostility of the rapidly declining Great Satan.” 

On the same topic, Tehran Time’s Mohammad Qaderi wrote in his analysis titled: “New scandal around empire of lies”:

“On Thursday, US President Donald Trump, who is also the commander-in-chief of the country’s armed forces, falsely claimed that a US warship had downed an Iranian drone in the Strait of Hormuz.

“Speaking at the White House, Trump said the USS Boxer shot down the drone after it got within 1,000 yards, "ignoring multiple calls to stand down and was threatening the safety of the ship and the ship's crew."

“Also, the Pentagon announced the Iranian drone was within a "threatening range" of the Boxer.

“Chief Pentagon spokesman Jonathan Hoffman said in his statement: “At approximately 10 a.m. local time, the amphibious ship USS Boxer was in international waters conducting a planned inbound transit of the Strait of Hormuz.”

“The interesting point here is that even the Pentagon did not bother to confirm Trump’s hallucination regarding the alleged downing of an Iranian drone, since its statement does not at all refer to the owner of the drone.

“But regarding Trump’s false claim, which is an intelligence disaster for a country which boasts of the biggest and most modern army in the world, a few points should be noted:

“Point No. 1- More than approximating reality, Trump’s false and hallucinatory claim of having downed an Iranian drone is rather indicative of the great shock the US suffered after the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) downed the Global Hawk spy drone recently, which has become a bitter nightmare for the US president. America’s inability to provide answer in kind to the IRGC’s firm action has severely marred the image of US military power.

“This is to say that resort to such false claims by the White House convey to the public mind nothing but desperation.

According to Point No. 2 cited by Tehran Times: “It seems that for Trump to make such a false claim is in fact the indication of the onset of a new era of media and propaganda campaign against the Islamic Republic, with the hope to materialize on the political and media scenes what has not been achieved in field, thus concealing a deep degree of military powerlessness of the US.

“Although Trump’s recent move shows how deeply the US has been impressed by a psychological vibe surrounding the ever-increasing military power of Iran, in case the US Army’s decision-making processes are based on such sort of information we should expect increasing risk of US military presence as well as unexpected moves that should ensue.

“What should be noted regarding Trump’s claim, is that according to statements by Iranian authorities, all Iranian drones in the Persian Gulf and the Strait of Hormuz, including the one mentioned by Trump, have returned home after their reconnaissance missions, and that the USS Boxer has been unable to engage in any sort of confrontation with the drone. This is why we should conclude that Trump intends to create a favorable media vibe for his administration.

“Point No. 3: Creating tension by resorting to false news-making is a mechanism constantly tapped by the US and its Western allies, which is especially used in the Persian Gulf region with a number of objectives. One of the main objectives is to present Iran as a threat to other regional countries and those whose economy somehow depends on the security of the Persian Gulf. A great part of this hype is created especially to milk the backward Arab leaders, especially those of Saudi Arabia and the UAE.

“Point No. 4:  The other noteworthy point is that based on the entire international rights, especially those concerning the rights governing seas, since the major part of the Persian Gulf waters are part of Iran’s territory, it is naturally Iran’s right to use whatever in its power to secure the region. This is while none of the international protocols allow US presence in the Persian Gulf. This is why the White House, seeking help from its allies such as the UK, is trying to misrepresent the Persian Gulf as insecure, and thereby to justify its bullying presence in the region.”

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