UNITED States President Donald Trump continues to brag to the world of committing more war crimes against the sovereign country of Iran as his war against the Islamic Republic rages on for more than sixth weeks now, triggering calls in the US Congress for his removal and trial as a war criminal.
Since the start of the US and Israel’s military adventure last February 28 without US congressional approval, both aggressors have committed war crimes after war crimes that were not also condemned by many of their allies in the West and other parts of the world, aside from branding the attack as “illegal” and “against international law” in the absence of a resolution passed by the United Nations.
It can be recalled that Trump and Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu started their treacherous attack on Iran on February 28 thru aerial bombing of Iran’s capital, Teheran.
This resulted to the mass killing of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, his family, and more than 40 top Iranian military leaders.
The murder spree also included the same day bombing of Shajareh Tayyebeh, an all-girls’ elementary school in
the Shahrak-e Al-Mahdi neighborhood, Minab, Hormozgan province, Southern Iran, which instantly killed 168 school children.
Asked about the incident the following day, Trump went to the specious claim that it was Iran who bombed its own children despite evidence that it was caused by US Tomahawk cruise missiles launched from the ‘USS Spruance.’
The US has yet to release the result of its “investigation” of the human tragedy ordered by Trump.
Killing an entire human civilization
Iran retaliated by immediately closing off oil traffic in the Strait of Hormuz from vessels bound for the US, Israel and their allies, a move that triggered a spike in the per barrel price of crude oil worldwide.
In his post on ‘Truth Social’ last April 7, Trump threatened a far worse war crime, declaring that “a whole civilization (Iran) will die tonight, never to be brought back again.
“I don’t want that to happen, but it probably will.”
Trump threatened to kill an entire human race in the context of forcing Iran to open the Strait of Hormuz where more than 20 percent of global oil passes thru, majority of which are bound for Asia, including the Philippines. More than 90 percent of the Philippines’ oil needs is sourced in the Middle East.
Prior to his latest rant, Trump and Netanyahu had already bombed the oil facilities, hospitals, nuclear sites, bridges and other civilian infrastructures in Iran.
Trump also threatened to flatten all the remaining bridges, power plants and water facilities in Iran and bomb the country “back to the Stone Age” in a post on Easter Sunday, April 5.
War on several fronts
These attacks drew reciprocal measures from Iran which targeted not only all US military bases in the entire Middle East but also, hotels and other civilian facilities including telecommunications it earlier identified as assisting America’s military aggression.
Since the start of the war, video footages and images smuggled out of Israel showed its major cities, especially Tel Aviv and Haifa, as nearing the level of destruction the Zionist regime had inflicted on Gaza and Lebanon in the past 3 years.
Both Israel and America are now engaged in a war on several fronts after the Hezbollah in Lebanon, the Shiite militias in Iraq, the Hamas in Palestine/Gaza Strip and the Houthis in Yemen joined the conflict on the side of Iran.
Remove Trump debate
Even as Trump claimed he is holding back on his plan to destroy Iran as a result of a 2-weeks temporary ceasefire brokered by Pakistan, the Democratic Party in the US Congress and his former staunch supporter, former Republican congresswoman (State of Georgia) Marjorie Taylor Greene, called for Trump’s removal by invoking the 25th Amendment in the US Constitution.
They branded Trumps’ threats on Iran as “pure evil” and “evil and madness” as reported by Newsweek on April 8.
The 25th Amendment became effective in 1967, two years after it was ratified by a majority (38 out of 50) of the states comprising the United States. It was introduced in 1965 in the aftermath of the 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy and lays the legal frameworks for the succession of the Vice President to the Office of the President, in case the sitting president is removed (thru impeachment), resigns or dies in office.
The amendment is also invoked should the sitting president voluntarily resigns from office thru a letter sent to Congress or, forced out by a majority of the Cabinet by informing Congress that the sitting president is no longer able to discharge the functions of his office.
(The 25th Amendment is reproduced under Section 8, Section 9 and Section 11, Article VII of the 1987 Constitution. Significantly Section 12, Article VII, mandates that Filipinos have the right to be informed of the state of health of the president “in case of serious illness”).
With the US president becoming out of control, his opponents believe that his removal thru impeachment or thru the 25th Amendment is becoming a real possibility as the November midterm polls near where the Democratic Party is expected to sweep the congressional race.