Trump’s trumping in Helsinki bolsters Iran’s indomitable stance

The US president’s dismal show during talks and the press conference at the Helsinki Summit with his Russian counterpart, which was widely condemned by almost all Americans as a betrayal of the nation, has exposed Donald Trump as a coward who raves and rants behind backs, but has no guts in face-to-face talks with powerful opponents like Valdimir Putin.

Here we present you an interesting piece in this regard that appeared in the Viewpoint column of Iran’s English language daily Kayhan International titled: “Trump’s Trumping in Helsinki Bolsters Iran’s Indomitable Stance”.

Kayhan International said: “As we had forecast in our Viewpoint Column of Monday, July 16, US president, Donald Trump, was not just outwitted by his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, at the summit in Helsinki on Tuesday, July 17, but so thoroughly trumped that the whole US, including his Republican party, is calling him a “disgrace for the nation”, if not a “traitor”.

“We had written in our last Monday’s column titled “Trump’s Diplomatic Misdemeanor Set to Boomerang Badly”, following his fiasco in Belgium and Britain and embarrassing criticism of Chancellor Angela Merkel and Prime Minister Theresa May:

“Thus, shunned by all and liked by no one, Trump now heads to Helsinki, the capital of Finland, for a summit with President Vladimir of Russia, a master politician, who will certainly hold his ground on Crimea and Ukraine, without yielding to any outlandish demands regarding Syria, where the illegal American military presence has no chance of survival.”

Recalling the 1961 summit in Vienna between the leaders of the US and the Soviet Union at which President John Kennedy was roughed up by Nkita Khrushchev and admitted to the New York Times that this summit was the worst thing in his life, it could be said Trump shows no such self-awareness of humiliation, which means he is a characterless person.

Kayhan International wrote: “Even with his supporters trying to distance themselves from him now, we are not sure what sort of trumping Trump will receive at the hands of the Congress or whether he will be impeached as the most idiotic president in US history who meekly surrendered to arch rival Russia.”

Kayhan International said: “Whatever the outcome, judging from his sickening rhetoric against Iran during the press conference in Helsinki that made no impression upon Putin, the Don Quixote in the White House is expected to continue the suicidal course he has chosen.

“Trump, who was outsmarted last June in Singapore by North Korean Leader, Kim Jong-un, is incapable of understanding that the Islamic Republic of Iran is too resilient a popular system of government to succumb to his economic sanctions or military threats.

“He is free to rave and rant to his heart’s content while he is still at the helm of affairs in Washington, but he can neither legitimize the existence of the illegal Zionist entity nor force Iran to withdraw its advisors from Syria, or for that matter stop Tehran’s principled support for Iraq’s Hashd ash-Sha’bi, Palestine’s freedom fighters, the popular Ansarallah movement of Yemen, Bahrain’s long suppressed majority, Afghanistan’s oppressed people, and Lebanon’s legendry anti-terrorist organization, the Hezbollah – let alone end the Islamic Republic’s peaceful nuclear project, aerospace programme, and rapidly expanding missile defense technology.

“We, however, expect some real soul-searching at the decision-making centres in the US, in the wake of Trump’s dismal performance vis-à-vis Putin in Helsinki where the thug in him appeared like a kitten, coupled with his belittling of the FBI and other American intelligence agencies, whose heads are now furious at his stupidity.”

Kayhan International further said: “It should be clear to most Americans now that a madman who undermines the credibility of the nation by breaching international accords, bragging about military weapons, selecting hoodlums and conmen as administration officials, disturbing the world trade order, betting upon losing horses in West Asia such as the rootless, repressive, unrepresentative reactionary Arab regimes, and calling traditional allies like the EU, “foes”, will bring further disaster to the US, if his powers are not slashed.

“As for Europe, it is about time it realized that the US and its hegemonic heads do not belong to the Old World, of which Russia, Iran and the other Asian and African countries are integral parts, which warrants peace, harmony, co-existence and uninterrupted economic and trade ties without bowing to trans-Atlantic pressures.

“As the wily Putin threw to a surprised Trump the football he had brought to Finland, fresh from hosting the FIFA World Cup, the ball is now in the US court – as its president sheepishly acknowledged, without the least clue on fair play and sporting spirit.

“The Islamic Republic is grateful to God Almighty that its foe is a fool – as we recite in one of the supplications in Sahifa-e Sajjadiyyah of Imam Zain al-Abedin (AS), the 4^th Infallible Heir of the Almighty Last and Greatest Messenger to all mankind, Prophet Muhammad (blessings of God upon him and his progeny).

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