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Old December 2nd, 2020 #16
Stewart Meadows
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Report: Trump Gives Hawks Free Rein to Hammer Iran


Trump's condition was to not risk starting 'World War III'

Dave DeCamp December 1, 2020

According to a report from The Daily Beast, President Trump has given his most hawkish advisors free rein to squeeze Iran as much as possible in the final weeks of his administration. The story cites multiple anonymous US officials who say Trump’s only condition was that his aides do not risk starting “World War III.”

The report reads: “Trump has given some of his most hawkish administration officials, particularly his top diplomat, Mike Pompeo, carte blanche to squeeze and punish the Islamic Republic as aggressively as they wish in the coming weeks.”

The officials say Trump has been more passive in overseeing Iran policy and point to Pompeo and Iran envoy Elliot Abrams as the two advisors heading the last-ditch effort to hammer the Islamic Republic. The officials say both Pompeo and Abrams are in favor of quietly backing covert actions carried out by other actors. One official said CIA Director Gina Haspel has been “intimately involved” in the administration’s clandestine strategy against Iran.

The Daily Beast report comes just days after Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, a top Iranian scientist, was killed in an attack that has been attributed to Israel. US officials confirmed with the Beast that Israel was behind the assassination.
https://news.antiwar.com/2020/12/01/...o-hammer-iran/


Last edited by Stewart Meadows; December 2nd, 2020 at 06:58 PM.