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2020-11-17 Home Front: WoT
Trump asked for options for attacking Iran last week, but held off -report
[Jpost] "He asked for options. They gave him the scenarios and he ultimately decided not to go forward," a US official said.
Yet another anonymous official sliding out what he says are secrets.
President Donald Trump
...dictatorial for repealing some (but not all) of the diktats of his predecessor, misogynistic because he likes pretty girls, homophobic because he doesn't think gender bending should be mandatory, truly a man for all seasons......
, with two months left in office, last week asked for options on attacking Iran's main nuclear site, but ultimately decided against taking the dramatic step, a US official said on Monday.

Trump made the request during an Oval Office meeting on Thursday with his top national security aides, including Vice President Mike Pence, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, new acting Defense Secretary Christopher Miller and General Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the official said.

The official confirmed the account of the meeting in The New York Times

...which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize...

, which reported the advisers persuaded Trump not to go ahead with a strike because of the risk of a broader conflict.
What odds any of this is true? Is there even an anonymous official, or has the New York Times gone straight to quoting imaginary American officials?
"He asked for options. They gave him the scenarios and he ultimately decided not to go forward," the official said.
That’s what we hired him to do.
The White House declined comment.

Trump's request for options came a day after a U.N. watchdog report showed Iran
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate Jews Zionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol...
had finished moving a first cascade of advanced centrifuges from an above-ground plant at its main uranium enrichment site to an underground one, in a fresh breach of its 2015 nuclear deal with major powers.

Iran's 2.4 tonne stock of low-enriched uranium is now far above the deal's 202.8 kg limit. It produced 337.5 kg in the quarter, less than the more than 500 kg recorded in the previous two quarters by the ineffective International Atomic Energy Agency.
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