MSNBC: ‘Rational’ Iranians Must Deal with ‘Irrational’ Trump

EXCERPT:

MOHYELDIN: “I was speaking to a colleague of mine who actually was around at the time of the Iranian hostage crisis in ‘79 and 1980. He was saying that it’s unimaginable to think in this day and age, it would be the Iranians who are signaling that they want to de-escalate. They’re being rational. That they have in the tweet of the Foreign Minister last night saying, 'We do not seek war. We do not seek confrontation, but we will defend ourselves.'  And it is the President of the United States that everybody is watching to see whether or not there’s going to be unpredictability, whether or not there’s going to be any kind of irrationality in the way he goes forward with this attack. It’s a very telling signal of how the times have changed, that the President of the United States is now the most watched person as he’s about to deliver this statement to indicate whether or not this region goes in the direction of war or goes in the direction of de-escalation and calm. And more interestingly, on top of that there, is the concern that after this phase of what we’re seeing, which is the killing of Qasem Soleimani, the Iranian general, this first response by the Iranians that things will return to the proxy and shadow wars that Iran has been doing.”

(h/t NewsBusters)