Soumaya Ghannoushi, a writer and expert in Middle East politics, explains why Trump’s comments do not project strength, but rather a profound illiteracy of history, civilisation, and the very region he threatens to dismantle.
“Trump cannot return Iran to the Stone Age, because it has not been there for thousands of years,” Ghannoushi says.
“What he is doing instead is dragging America into one. Into an age of savagery. Into the logic of the Stone Age.”
