Newsweek: Trump Administration Prepares Multiple Military Options for Iran, Including Airstrikes and Setting Up Ground Invasion
When President Trump’s top national security advisers met for a classified meeting at the Pentagon last Thursday, Acting Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan laid out several U.S. military options for Iran, separated into two distinct categories: retaliatory and offensive.
The revised Iran options ordered by John Bolton, President Trump’s national security adviser, have different degrees and redlines for escalation, ranging from airstrikes to targeted incursions, Pentagon officials told Newsweek.
Defense Department officials who have been briefed on the details of the updated military plans for Iran agreed to speak with Newsweek on condition of anonymity. Pentagon officials confirmed a report published in The New York Times on Monday outlining an option to deploy as many as 120,000 U.S. troops to the Middle East if Iran initiates an attack on U.S. forces or continues to work on what the U.S. has alleged were secret nuclear proliferation objectives.
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WNU editor: Preparing a wide range of military options is nothing new. As to reports that the U.S. wants to start a war against Iran, I doubt it. Especially since the military assets that would be necessary are not even remotely there. So why the Newsweek story? To me .... this story is a deliberate leak to put pressure on Iran.
3 comments:
It was a deliberate leak to put pressure on Trump, not Iran. This is about hurting Trump with his base.
Not going to hurt him, his base understands this. Also, normal to release info like this.
Correct Mike but it is a distraction.
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