Joe Biden administration is increasingly under a lot of pressure when it comes to how to deal with Iran especially when it comes to preventing Iran from developing Nuclear weapons as Iran continues to reject U.S demands.
In January of 2020, the world wake up to a blink of a war between the U.S and Iran after it was reported that Iran’s most feared and battle-hardened Gen. Qassem Soleimani had been killed in Iraq in a drone attack after arriving at the airport.
The former U.S President Donald J Trump had been given a list of options to respond to the killing of U.S contractors and the storming of the U.S embassy in Iraq as tensions between the U.S and Iran escalated after the defeat of ISIL and imposition of new sanctions on Iran by Trump administration.
When the news reached Iran, millions of people come to the streets to demand revenge for the killing of Soleimani and Iranian leaders promised the response that would be devastating and that was never to end until those responsible for the killing were brought to justice.
The world was left wondering and questioning the thinking of U.S leader Trump and his military advisors and generals and the level of impunity they had expressed and its future consequences.
Iran then also surprised the whole world when it launched a ballistic missile strike against U.S bases in Iraq in response to the killing of Solemani since many people thought no country dared to attack U.S forces anywhere in the world.
It was the first time since world war II that U.S forces had come under attack of ballistic missiles( at the receiving end) from the opposite sides since U.S forces had been accustomed to being the ones firing in every war they fought in recent history.
So on January 3, the Iranian president Ebrahim Raisi come out and vowed revenge for the assassination of top Iranian Gen. Qassem Solemani two years ago unless the former U.S President Donald Trump is arrested and put on trial.
Many people wondered about Raisi’s demand since almost everybody including Raisi himself knows that it’s impossible for the U.S to put Trump on trial for killing Qassem Soleimani, a man the U.S had been looking for on a number of charges.
But nevertheless, this puts more pressure on the U.S to respond to the demand at times when tensions are high in the middle east.
