The President of the USA, Donald Trump, urges Iran to "unconditional capitulation", in a post on his social media platform Truth Social, and has also hinted that the USA may come to kill Iran's supreme leader ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
Middle East expert Alexander Atarodi, former researcher at the Total Defence Research Institute, tells DN that it is obvious that the development is heading towards a "worst-case scenario" that could happen, namely that the USA becomes involved in the war.
We are talking about a regional major war with completely unforeseen consequences, says Atarodi to the newspaper.
Jan Hallenberg, USA expert and professor emeritus in political science at the Defence University, tells SVT News that one possible scenario is that Trump tries to get Iran to stop its uranium enrichment through pressure.
Trump sees an opportunity here to achieve his goal, which is an Iran without nuclear weapons and without a major war. He dreams of some kind of great peace solution. He is engaged in what I call "commence" – the threat of using military force to force another state to do something that the state does not want to do, says Hallenberg to the TV channel.
