"The best explanation for the Iran crisis is Trump's obsession with Obama," writer Eugene Robinson began his article in The Washington Post. He said that US President Donald Trump's obsession with erasing the legacy of former President Barack Obama was almost setting fire to the Middle East this week, and perhaps still.

Robinson considered that there is no better explanation than this for Trump's "reckless" decision to assassinate Major General Qassem Soleimani, especially in light of his strange, self-praising and contradictory rhetoric in which he deceived on Wednesday that he had ended the crisis he created, and it appears that the whole matter is related to Trump's satisfying obsession with Obama.

The writer said that Trump claimed that "the missiles that were fired at us and our allies last night were paid for with the funds made available by the previous administration."

He denounced that, asking, “Really? Did Obama occupy all this space of Trump’s thinking? Does the president stay awake until late, implanting pins in a puppet representing Obama as he is doing in voodoo rituals (a kind of black magic) in the hope that the curse will strike him?”

He says, "After some expected boasting and arrogance, Trump has made clear what he wants, which is to end Iran's progress toward a nuclear weapon in exchange for mitigating the crippling economic sanctions."

The writer commented that this is what Obama has already achieved with the comprehensive and effective nuclear agreement that brought Trump out of the United States.

He pointed out that the real hawks with Iran, like former National Security Adviser John Bolton, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Senator Lindsey Graham and Marco Rubio, want much more, but Trump does not have the patience or the audacity for all that these hawks want.

He said that Trump proved this week again that he was not interested in being a president in wartime, and after Iranian ballistic missiles fell unharmed he quickly decided not to respond to Iranian retaliation and as soon as Baba saw the word "exit" he took him.

The writer concluded that Trump's hatred for the war cannot be taken for granted, because as everything seems to follow the imperative of wiping out Obama, it is clear that it is not about politics and must be about something else.