Was it fresh intelligence or anger over the embassy attack?
--->Per @nytimes: As tensions with Iran escalated, Trump opted for most extreme measure "despite disputes in the administration about the significance of" some U.S. intelligence.
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--->Per @nytimes: As tensions with Iran escalated, Trump opted for most extreme measure "despite disputes in the administration about the significance of" some U.S. intelligence.
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@nytimes “Days, weeks,” Gen. Mark A. Milley, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said on Friday, when asked how imminent any attacks could be, without offering more detail other than to say that new information about unspecified plotting was “clear and unambiguous.”
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@nytimes some officials voiced private skepticism about the rationale for a strike on General Suleimani...
According to one ..., the new intelligence indicated “a normal Monday in the Middle East” — Dec. 30 — and General Suleimani’s travels amounted to “business as usual.”
According to one ..., the new intelligence indicated “a normal Monday in the Middle East” — Dec. 30 — and General Suleimani’s travels amounted to “business as usual.”
@nytimes ..."the ayatollah had not yet approved any plans by the general for an attack. The ayatollah, according to the communications, had asked General Suleimani to come to Tehran for further discussions at least a week before his death."
👉🏻Khamanei had also taunted Trump on Twitter:
“You can’t do anything.”
Jan. 1:
“You can’t do anything.”
Jan. 1:
