The Guardian
Trump sought strike on top Iran military figure for political reasons
Shortly before the 2020 election, Donald Trump’s national security adviser, Robert O’Brien, “stunned” the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff by saying the president wanted to kill a senior Iranian military officer operating outside the Islamic Republic.
“This was a really bad idea with very big consequences,” Mark Esper, Trump’s second and last secretary of defense, writes in his new memoir, adding that Gen Mark Milley suspected O’Brien saw the strike purely in terms of Trump’s political interests.
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Trump made belligerence towards Tehran an important part of his administration and platform for re-election, pulling out of the Iran nuclear deal and regularly warning in bombastic terms of the cost of conflict with the US.
He also ordered a drone strike on a top Iranian general blamed for attacks on US targets. In January 2020, Qassem Suleimani, the head of the elite Quds force, was killed in Baghdad.
At a meeting in July 2020, Esper writes, O’Brien pushed for military action against Iran over its uranium enrichment – work that accelerated after Trump pulled out of the nuclear deal.
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That happens when one illiterate in history
Trump did not know that Iranians still fighting the "unjust killing of Ali by Omar" 1400 years ago, and would not let go
Was a bit mistake .. lowers the bar
Biden's Iran task is hopeless .. mad mullahs already a nuclear power .. and .. Brent @ 120 and climbing (Iran with 2nd biggest Gas reserve in the world) mad mullahs swimming in money.
Iran now key for "Russia and China" .. everybody courting mad mullahs.
Well, it ain't getting any cheaper, price going up .. price is US , West accept ME moving under Iranian umbrella
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