by B. R. GOWANI
US has become too big and dangerous for the world
The United States has become too big for the world. It was in August 1945 that the US under President Harry Truman terrorized the world, and particularly the people of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in japan, when it exploded the atom bombs and killed over 200,000 Japanese. More than 80 years later, now it is Donald Trump who is terrorizing the world, specially, Iran.
On April 1, 2026, Trump wrote on his Social Truth site:
“We are going to hit them [Iranians] extremely hard over the next two to three weeks. We’re going to bring them back to the Stone Ages, where they belong.”
On April 5, 2026, Trump wrote on his Social Truth site:
Tuesday will be Power Plant Day, and Bridge Day, all wrapped up in one, in Iran. There will be nothing like it!!! Open the Fuckin’ Strait, you crazy bastards, or you’ll be living in Hell – JUST WATCH! Praise be to Allah. President DONALD J. TRUMP
Doomsday warning
On March 7, 2026, at 7:06 AM (EST), US President Donald Trump issued a doomsday warning to Iran:
“A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again. I don’t want that to happen, but it probably will. However, now that we have Complete and Total Regime Change, where different, smarter, and less radicalized minds prevail, maybe something revolutionarily wonderful can happen, WHO KNOWS? We will find out tonight, one of the most important moments in the long and complex history of the World. 47 years of extortion, corruption, and death, will finally end. God Bless the Great People of Iran!”
A sadist pronouncement, indeed. The threat to nuke Iran. In less than 11 hours, the warning was to expire at 8:00 PM.
No country should have this kind of monstrous power.
Will he or will he not?
About four hours before the expiry of Trump’s threat of annihilating the entire Iranian civilization, a person I know called me and said that Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has asked President Donald Trump to extend the deadline, and had requested Iranian leaders to keep the Strait of Hormuz open. He wanted my thoughts.
I said it’s probably Trump who, looking for a way out of the Israel ‘s war he got involved into, has perhaps asked Sharif to tweet such a request. Well, it turned out that my guess was correct.
In his enthusiasm, Sharif retweeted it without realizing that the first sentence needed to be deleted.
Sharif’s edited tweet:
“Diplomatic efforts for peaceful settlement of the ongoing war in the Middle East are progressing steadily, strongly and powerfully with the potential to lead to substantive results in near future. To allow diplomacy to run its course, I earnestly request President Trump to extend the deadline for two weeks. Pakistan, in all sincerity, requests the Iranian brothers to open Strait of Hormuz for a corresponding period of two weeks as a goodwill gesture. We also urge all warring parties to observe a ceasefire everywhere for two weeks to allow diplomacy to achieve conclusive termination of war, in the interest of long-term peace and stability in the region.”
The deleted sentence with explanation has been posted by investigative journalist Ryan Grim on his X account:
“Oh, this is unbelievable. The edit history on this tweet shows that Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif originally copied and pasted everything he was sent, including:
“*Draft – Pakistan’s PM Message on X*”
Now, obviously, Sharif’s own staff don’t call him “Pakistan’s PM,” they would just call him prime minister. The U.S. and Israel, of course, would call him “Pakistan’s PM.”
Would be funny if the fate of the world wasn’t hanging in the balance.”
Is Pakistan the right mediator?
The answer is yes and no.
Yes. Pakistan is the right mediator for a number of reasons:
- Pakistan has overly good relations with the US.
- It has good relations with Iran.
- It’s relations with China <1> is very good too.
- With the GCC countries, except the UAE <2>, too Pakistan is on good terms.
- Turkey is another major country in the Middle East which i close to Pakistan.
As mediator, Pakistan conveyed messages to and fro Iran and the US. It then kept China, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and Turkey in the loop by informing them on developments.
No. Pakistan is not the right mediator for one major reason:
Mediator should be one who has enough power to exert on parties involved in negotiation to abide by the final outcome.
Pakistan cannot say anything reasonable to Trump because their relation is that of a master and a subject.
Not only that, there was no guarantee that there won’t be attack on the Iranian delegation returning back to their country. The US and ISrael are famous back stabbing.
Once the meeting between Iranian and US leaders was over on April 13, the Iranian delegation had to be escorted by roughly a couple dozen Pakistani air force planes because of danger to their lives from Israel and the US!
The world’s two most violent states neither listens to anyone nor respects any global body so it is impossible to expect any meaningful resolution unless Trump himself decides that there is no winning this time around and is the time to call it a quit — from the Strait of Hormuz.
Notes
<1> An article in Indian billionaire Gautam Adani’s NDTV (New Delhi Television) had this heading: “China Didn’t Just Quietly Buy Iran’s Oil. It Funded Its Wartime Economy” by Columnist Anushree Jonko.
(Adani is Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s friend and political supporter.)
Jonko then quotes Max Meizlish of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD):
“Iran just wouldn’t be able to fight this war without the years of support that it has received from China.”
Meizlish is a pro-Israel and anti-Iran warmonger who instead of accusing Israel and the US of waging war against Iran, is blaming Iran for attacking Israel, the US, and the US bases in the Gulf.
Who has imposed sanctions on Iran? The US. Can the US do that? No. But it does it anyway.
Under such heavy illegal/inhumane sanctions, Iran is naturally going to do business with any country which it can do business with. To imply that by buying Iran’s oil, China supported Iran’s war is preposterous. Besides, Iran didn’t start the war, it is Israel/US who initiated it.
<2> In Saudi Arabia’s capital Riyadh on March 18, foreign ministers of 12 countries from Pakistan, Middle East, and Central Asia had a critical meeting on the ongoing US/Israel war against Iran. The UAE, Bahrain, Jordan, and Kuwait wanted to criticize Iran only and not the US and Israel, the countries which started the war. Iran’s counterattacks also targeted the Gulf countries because they had US military bases which have been used in the past to attack Iran and were also being used this time. The draft included condemnation of Iran only because the UAE wanted no criticism of Israel or the US; it craved Iran’s defeat “by any means necessary.” Pakistan wanted to include denunciation of Israel too. Turkey and Lebanon came on Pakistan’s side. The meeting would have failed but for Saudi Arabia’s efforts in convincing the UAE to include Israel too.
Pakistani journalist Hamid Mir wrote in Urdu newspaper Jang that Gulf country, of course, the UAE, said that for what Iran is doing to us, Iran should be nuked. Turkey’s and Pakistan’s foreign ministers told the delegates that war is not the solution to any problem.
Pakistan’s Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar addressed everyone gathered over there:
“With atom bomb, the entire Iranian nation cannot be eliminated. Once Israel is done with Iran, it will head toward Gulf countries one by one because Netanyahu wants to create Greater Israel.”
After long debate and arguments, a new draft included Israel’s condemnation.
B. R. Gowani can be reached at brgowani@hotmail.com