In POLITICO Magazine, two top former U.S. counterterrorism officials make a revealing confession about last month’s attacks on two tanker ships off the coast of Iran. Dan Benjamin and Steve Simon, senior policymakers for President Obama, can’t be mistaken for conspiracy theorists. Yet they wondered who was behind the attacks, which generated indelible images of...
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Has Trump Ended the U.S. Drone War in Pakistan?
A new report from the New America think tank in Washington raises the possibility that the U.S. drone against suspected terrorists in Pakistan may be over. The last American drone strike in Pakistan, according to New America’s research, occurred on July 4, 2018 when a U.S. drone killed Qari Abdullah Dawar, the chief commander of the Hafiz Gul...
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Mossad Chief Blames Iran for Multiple Attacks
Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps was behind recent attacks in the Persian Gulf, Saudi Arabia and Iraq, said Mossad chief Yossi Cohen in a speech Monday, citing “best sources of Israeli and Western intelligence agencies.” Last week the Foreign Minister of the United Arab Emirates disputed U.S. charges that Iran was behind the attacks, saying his...
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U.S. Ally Balks at Charge Iran Attacked Its Tankers
So who attacked the two tankers in the Gulf of Oman in June 13, the attacks that brought Iran and the United States to the brink of war? The United States released a grainy video of small ship removing what it said was a limpet mine from the hull of one of the tankers. Secretary...
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Russia Tweaks Trump: Putin Adviser Says U.S. Drone Violated Iranian Airspace
President Trump’s campaign of “maximum pressure’ on Iran has hit an obstacle: Russia. While the United States insists that Iran shot down a U.S. surveillance drone in international airspace last week, Russia rejected the charge on Tuesday and supported Iran’s claim that the RQ-4 drone with a 116-foot wingspan, was shot down over Iranian territory....