US-Israeli Deception Gave Iran False Security Amid Washington Green Light- ZeroHedge
US-Israeli Deception Gave Iran False Security Amid Washington Green Light
Fresh reporting as well as new Friday statements by President Trump reveal that the US and Israel practiced deceptive diplomacy, as Israeli and American officials worked together to convince Iran that nuclear negotiations were progressing.
Yet all the while an elaborate Israel attack on Iranian nuclear sites was being planned, and Tehran was given a false sense of security, and ill-prepared for its defense.
Axios has reported that Tel Aviv was given "a clear US green light" to start bombing, according to two unnamed Israeli officials. The previously widely reported 'split' and spat between Trump and Netanyahu was a public ruse.
"Two Israeli officials claimed to Axios that Trump and his aides were only pretending to oppose an Israeli attack in public — and didn’t express opposition in private," the report explained. "The goal, they say, was to convince Iran that no attack was imminent and make sure Iranians on Israel’s target list wouldn’t move to new locations."
Trump was even publicly advocating for diplomacy even up to within hours of the overnight attacks, which involved at least 200 Israeli warplanes, and drones.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio has since publicly denied American involvement, however, Trump has admitted that he was briefed on the major Israeli military operation. However, Trump has indicated that US-supplied weapons were used against Iran. Meanwhile:
TRUMP SAYS IRAN OFFICIALS CALLING HIM TO DISCUSS SITUATION: NBC
Thus far, there's been no evidence of direct Pentagon involvement. But clearly, the Islamic Republic was lulled or tricked into believing that no Israeli strikes were actually imminent.
Per WSJ:
President Trump told The Wall Street Journal that he and his team were read in on Israel’s plans to attack Iran. Asked what kind of heads-up the U.S. got ahead of the attack, Trump said in a brief phone interview, "Heads-up? It wasn’t a heads-up. It was, we know what's going on."
Israel is seeking to both decapitate Iran's military leadership and completely destroy Iran's nuclear program, which Tehran has long maintained is for peaceful energy purposes.
Given Tehran has vowed to continue its nuclear activities undeterred, despite damage at Natanz and other sites, more waves of Israeli attacks are likely.
Israel's military has on Friday said it has begun to deploy reservists from different units to all combat areas nationwide in readiness for a potential Iranian military response.
Certainly, something was going on last night at The Pentagon...
The question remains: what next? So far, Iranian anti-air defenses have appeared almost non-existent. It's also unclear the degree to which Iran's air defenses and ballistic missile sites have already been destroyed or destruction.
I cannot imagine *any* top leader who is making decisions in America, the Middle East, Europe, Russia..... being free to actually tell the Truth about either the historical facts (speaking of Israel, Palestinians, Iran, Syria, Hamas, Hezbullah, etc., etc.) or what their real choices are at this point.
The degree of dis-information and distortion makes it almost impossible for the average person to even know who the major actors are, and even harder to recognize those who set the stage for "forever wars" -- tracing back to treacherous leaders in Great Britain, America, and the Middle East after WW1.
So I'm not going to try to persuade y'all so much as just make an observation. In the 1970's & '80's, America & the USSR were on the brink of nuclear war, with no path to de-escalation. But a small group of Americans & Russians worked incredibly long, hard hours against all odds and in some ways against their own leaders, to formulate a **verifiable** Nuclear Arms Treaty that allowed **INSPECTIONS** and trust-keeping activities.
It's not hard to believe that there has been treachery on *ALL SIDES* involved with making a treaty with Iran, but it sounds to me like their continuous refusal to allow inspections and to just say "trust us" was pretty much a death knell to the possibility of a treaty.
Thus, sooner or later, there was going to be a war something like what we are seeing. How far it will go, is anyone's guess. I suspect that Iran is going to suffer serious defeat -- but that the price will be high on Israel's side.
I don't know how deeply America will get involved, but when it is all over, I *do* believe that aside from a bunch of sociopathic/psychopathic colonialist elites in Europe and America (I consider the Washington D.eath C.ult to have been contaminated with those same elites to one degree or another for much of American history) most of the world would rather find less deadly ways to compete with each other.... so I am hopeful in that regard.
"Two Israeli officials" supplied this intel?
They would seem to be reliable sources, right?
I'll pass and wait for better sources.