Piers Morgan Rips Into Donald Trump For Thinking He Could 'Pull A Venezuela' In Iran

Piers Morgan has torn Donald Trump apart for assuming he could treat Iran in the same way he treated Venezuela.

The broadcaster, who previously had a close relationship with the US president, told the BBC’s Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg that he does not think Trump has a “clue” what he is trying to achieve with his attacks on the Middle East.

Morgan said: “I think he thought he could pull a Venezuela here – decapitate the leadership of Iran and it would all get settled quite quickly.

“I think two weeks in, what is very clear, is this is not going to get settled quickly.”

Trump kidnapped Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro in January, and his replacement has tried to keep America on side even as the US moved in to seize the country’s oil tankers.

While the US and Israel strikes on Iran did kill Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei last month, it’s clear the regime is far from falling.

Morgan also noted that Trump has been inconsistent with his explanations for the attacks.

“All the mission statements he’s laid out change day by day, sometimes hour by hour,” the broadcaster said.

“It was going to be regime change, it was going after nuclear capability which we’d been assured only 10 months ago had been dismantled already.”

He said the “tremendous overwhelming superiority” of the US and Israeli military which is “bigger than probably anything we’ve ever seen on planet Earth”.

But Tehran continues to hold its own by focusing on economic tactics by effectively closing the Strait of Hormuz, which carries around a fifth of the world’s oil supply.

This has sent markets into turmoil as the price of oil skyrockets.

“They are sending a signal that we can’t beat you militarily, but economically we can paralyse you,” Morgan said.