Following Trump’s attacks on Iran, an admin official tells Rolling Stone, “The intelligence assessments have not really changed”
After Donald Trump’s decision to strike three Iranian nuclear facilities on Saturday, administration officials are barely bothering to pretend the unprecedented — and potentially calamitous — attacks were motivated by new intelligence suggesting Iran was on the brink of having nuclear weapons.
Just months ago, Trump’s Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard testified to Congress, in her opening statement, that the U.S. intel community “continues to assess that Iran is not building a nuclear weapon” and had not reauthorized its nuclear weapons program.
While Trump recently publicly disputed Gabbard’s testimony, according to two administration officials with knowledge of internal deliberations in recent weeks, the president’s decision to strike was not driven by any new U.S. intelligence on Iran.
Iran was a liberal democracy before the US helped topple it and install the Ayatollah.
The US is complicit in all the violence they did to their people.
Not quite. It was a liberal democracy until the US helped topple it and install the Shah, who was then toppled by Khomeini.
Many such cases of liberal democracies being toppled by the Us in favor of dictators
It really shouldn’t be surprising that the US liberal democracy got toppled by a dictator when we seem to love such foreign policy.
Yeah. The problem with American democracy is that they loved capitalism more than democracy and that is bad