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Resigned Trump counterterror adviser Joe Kent says 'Israel drove the decision' to strike Iran
abcnews.com

... Joe Kent, the former director of the National Counterterrorism Center who resigned over his opposition to the Iran war, told Tucker Carlson that "Israel drove the decision" to strike Iran and rejected that there was an "imminent" threat to the United States.

Kent, who announced his resignation on Tuesday, also said that he thinks President Donald Trump knows the war "is not going well."

"The Israelis drove the decision to take this action, which we knew would set off a series of events, meaning the Iranians would retaliate," Kent said in a nearly two-hour-long interview that aired Wednesday evening.

"The Israelis felt emboldened and that no matter what they did, no matter what situation they put us in, that they could go ahead and take this action and we would just have to react," he added. ...


Trump is poised to take Iran's Kharg Island. Here's what could unfold next.
www.politico.com

... A tiny Iranian island responsible for virtually all of the country's oil exports is in President Donald Trump's crosshairs.

Trump began attacking Kharg Island, the 5-mile strip of land that nearly all of Iran's oil exports pass through, late last week as part of his war against the country. He's warning that a broader assault could come next as part of his campaign to get Iran to stop targeting tankers in the all-important Strait of Hormuz.

"We can knock out their oil in Kharg Island," Trump told reporters Tuesday. "The only thing we didn't take down was the oil, because if we knock out, I call them the pipes, very complex, but if you do that, it will take them forever to rebuild."

Hitting or seizing the island holds enormous risk for a president whose political standing at home could erode if military action against Kharg Island ignites a full-scale war by Iran against energy infrastructure across the Persian Gulf. A widening conflict in the Middle East involving the destruction of oil fields ports, and natural gas storage depots could send crude prices soaring " and bring the world closer to a recession. ...



US weighs military reinforcements as Iran war enters possible new phase
www.reuters.com

... President Donald Trump's administration is considering deploying thousands of U.S. troops to reinforce its operation in the Middle East, as the U.S. military prepares for possible next steps in its campaign against Iran, said a U.S. official and three people familiar with the matter.

The deployments could help provide Trump with additional options as he weighs expanding U.S. operations, with the Iran war well into its third week.

Those options include securing safe passage for oil tankers through the Strait of Hormuz, a mission that would be accomplished primarily through air and naval forces, the sources said. But securing the Strait could also mean deploying U.S. troops to Iran's shoreline, said four sources, including two U.S. officials. ...



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