Is Trump About To Get ‘His Own Iraq’
There’s a massive potential for escalation because Iran is a key member of several organizations of the rapidly growing multipolar world, including BRICS+ and the SCO (Shanghai Cooperation Organization). Neither Russia nor China want to see Iran defeated or destabilized by a potential color revolution that could dissolve the country or turn it into yet another Western vassal.
One of the more common mistakes many people make is mixing up Iran and Iraq. However, the two neighboring countries share far more similarities than just their names. Unfortunately, it seems that Tehran is dangerously close to a similar misfortune its neighbor faced in 2003.
Namely, the United States is on the verge of attacking Iran, as evidenced by the increasingly harsh rhetoric of American President Donald Trump. He has gone as far as to dismiss reports of his own intelligence services regarding the prospect of Iran acquiring nuclear weapons. When told by CNN that Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard testified in March that Iran was not building a nuclear weapon, Trump was blunt:
“I don’t care what she said. They were very close to getting a nuke.”
It seems Iran has been “close” for over three decades at this point. Still, in its latest assessment, even the infamous CIA confirmed that Tehran isn’t pursuing a nuclear weapons program. This report was also part of the DNI’s annual threat assessment. Gabbard, who coordinates all US intelligence services, stated before the Senate Intelligence Committee that “the US intelligence community continues to assess that Iran is not building a nuclear weapon and Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has not authorized the nuclear weapons program he suspended in 2003”. And yet, Trump completely dismissed these reports, meaning that he’s getting different intelligence from other “unknown” sources.
The US military is now sending an unprecedented number of strategic assets to the Middle East, including a second supercarrier, the USS Nimitz. Apart from the US Navy, the USAF is also involved, sending dozens of aerial tankers. All this comes after Trump escalate
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