“John Bolton, a hawk with a view on Iran”
“Allegations about imminent attacks. The aircraft carrier in readiness. Hemtagande of embassy personnel.”
“Tensions between the united states and Iran has increased significantly over the last few weeks. An important player in Washington, D.C., the national security advisor John Bolton.”
“sit down with north Korean dictator Kim Jong-Un, smiling broadly and in a handshake with Russia’s president, Vladimir Putin, or together with the prime minister of Israel Benjamin Netanyahu. Sometimes in the background, sometimes in the limelight, it seems John Bolton is constantly seen with his distinctive white moustache when a loaded military situation or potential conflict exists.”
“over a year Ago, he has been president of Donald Trump’s national security adviser, and by chance he took up the position in week 15 years after the 2003 invasion of Iraq.”
“Bolton, the critic draws parallels between the 2003 and today’s tense relationship with Iran. Then, as now talked there about the unspecified threat, then, as now, was Bolton in the scenes. And the adviser has publicly sawn global kärnenergiavtalet with Iran, who the U.S. left in the last year, and advocated regime change in the country.”
“over the years, John Bolton, who also worked as a UN ambassador, described as a krigshök, a conductor and a veteran in the art of overthrowing regimes. He is a man who has a finger in the crucial military decisions. But he is also something of an odd bird in the president of Donald Trumps inner circle.”
“– Bolton is on the uppåtstigande in the White house. He is perceived as strong and tough – two qualities that Trump values, ” says the political scientist Robert Guttman of Johns Hopkins university, to the AFP news agency.”
“It has prompted some to fear that Bolton and other foreign policy hardliners within the american governance is on the way to take control.”
“But other analysts point out that Bolton, who, after decades in the government service has its highest position so far, draws towards a completely different direction than the Trump. According to sources, the start, the president now to back off from the hard Iranlinje that the adviser advocates. Trump should recently have said to the minister of defense Patrick Shanahan that he did not want to go to war, reports The New York Times.”
“And sources report for the news channel CNN that Bolton is starting to go the president of the republic on the nerves. Trump, who went to the polls to pull the united states out of the costly wars that followed the terrorist attacks of september 11, 2001, suddenly finds himself on the brink of what many fear could develop into yet another military conflict.”
“the State Pentagon decided not long ago to send the aircraft carrier with bomb and fighter jets to the Middle east. This in response to claims that Iran or Teherantrogna groups planning attacks against american interests. It has also got Iran to sharpen krigsretoriken.”
“We are facing a full-scale confrontation with the enemy,” said major general Hossein Salami, a commander in the revolutionary guard, which is a branch of the iranian armed forces, just days later.”
“Bolton has warned”
“But to send planes and warships is a pale action compared with the data for The New York Times that Bolton should have requested that the 120 000 soldiers to be sent to the Middle east. The task has later been rejected by the president.”
“Paul Fritz, a foreign policy expert at Hofstra university, says to AFP that the world today will be asking themselves particularly skeptical about the White house’s description of Iran as a growing threat. He compares the Iraq war and the regime’s alleged weapons of mass destruction.”
“– It sounds terribly similar to the Iraq war. There is every reason to remain skeptical.”
“And maybe it is just skeptical about Trump starting to be against Bolton. On the question of whether the united states is approaching a war with Iran, said Trump on Thursday:”
” I hope not.”
“Born in a decades later, in Maryland, in 1948. Went to the prestigious Yale university via scholarships and holds a degree in law from there.”
“was Appointed ambassador to the united nations by president George W Bush and worked as such in 2005-2006. But he was never approved by the senate, then controlled by Democrats. Before that, he worked inter alia at the ministry of justice and utrikesdepartementen under the republican presidents George H W Bush and Ronald Reagan.”
“Have even worked on some of Washington DC’s more well-known law firms and as a principal analyst at the conservative think tank the American Enterprise Institute. His characteristic mustache is well known from the conservative tv channel Fox News, where he has commented on foreign policy.”
“Among the previously known profiles that have had the job there is Susan Rice, Henry Kissinger, Zbigniew Brzezinski and Brent Scowcroft.”
“Sources: CNN and the White house.”
