05-06-2019, 09:42 PM
Ted King wrote:
How did Trump know that the Iranians were causing "provocations"? Could it be the US government's intelligence agencies? The same intelligence agencies he seems to be sure have it all wrong about Russia.
"Israel’s Mossad intelligence agency reportedly tipped off the United States on an impending Iranian attack on American interests in the Gulf, prompting Washington to deploy an aircraft carrier strike group to the region late Sunday, in a sharp escalation of US President Donald Trump’s pressure campaign."
https://www.timesofisrael.com/report-mos...ier-force/
which is, of course, not true if it was on its way already. It takes many, many months to put these deployments together. (This looks to me to be Israeli right wing newspaper fiction.)