The report comes as a result of leaks to the New York Times. Which, given the nature of the subject matter and administration officials involved, indicates the sourcing is from the domestic IC side of things. Specifically, the greatest likelihood is from someone in the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (DNI) talking to media. Keep that in mind.
According to leaked information to the New York Times, President Trump did not agree with an Israeli proposal to launch military strikes against Iran. According to the narrative as advanced, President Trump, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth were in agreement to attempt diplomatic solutions instead of bombing Iran.
Israel could not conduct the attack without U.S. support, which President Trump decided not to give. Instead, Trump wanted a more forceful push toward engagement and diplomacy with Iran surrounding the ongoing contentious issue of nuclear development.
NEW YORK TIMES – Israel had planned to strike Iranian nuclear sites as soon as next month but was waved off by President Trump in recent weeks in favor of negotiating a deal with Tehran to limit its nuclear program, according to administration officials and others briefed on the discussions.
Mr. Trump made his decision after months of internal debate over whether to pursue diplomacy or support Israel in seeking to set back Iran’s ability to build a bomb, at a time when Iran has been weakened militarily and economically.
The debate highlighted fault lines between historically hawkish American cabinet officials and other aides more skeptical that a military assault on Iran could destroy the country’s nuclear ambitions and avoid a larger war. It resulted in a rough consensus, for now, against military action, with Iran signaling a willingness to negotiate.
Israeli officials had recently developed plans to attack Iranian nuclear sites in May. They were prepared to carry them out, and at times were optimistic that the United States would sign off. The goal of the proposals, according to officials briefed on them, was to set back Tehran’s ability to develop a nuclear weapon by a year or more.
Almost all of the plans would have required U.S. help not just to defend Israel from Iranian retaliation, but also to ensure that an Israeli attack was successful, making the United States a central part of the attack itself.
For now, Mr. Trump has chosen diplomacy over military action. (Read More)
This is where we need to insert the element that all media generally refuse to associate, Russia.
Iran has reengaged with officials from President Trump’s administration following a letter Trump wrote to the leadership in Iran. President Trump wants Mideast peace; he also wants to avoid the issue of Iran having a nuclear weapon. President Trump views military action as the last possible resort for failed diplomatic and geopolitical efforts.
Israel wants to attack Iran. President Trump wants to support Israel but doesn’t want expanded military conflict that pulls the USA into more Mideast war.
As we see in the continued issues within Ukraine, the CIA supports expanded conflict in both Ukraine and Iran. Israel and the CIA are in alignment. Hence, in our ongoing restaurant analogy, the CIA is the kitchen, and Israel has a table there.
Russian President Vladimir Putin could be an influential geopolitical partner with President Trump, if Trump can get the issues of Ukraine and Russia solved and then pivot to Iran.
Unfortunately, the CIA does not want the issues within Ukraine solved, doesn’t want Trump and Putin coordinating and certainly doesn’t want Trump and Putin to work out a new strategic global map that does not contain useful conflict. Again, Israel and the CIA are in alignment.
[It’s a busy kitchen – GO DEEP]
If President Trump builds a new bridge to Putin the bypass will significantly hurt traffic around the restaurant. The congressional zoning commission (House) is sympathetic to the long-term contract held by the chef, and the Israeli chamber of commerce are paying the county commissioners (senators) ‘indulgency fees’ to maintain the current ingress and egress.
With the January change in shingle, Secretary of State Marco Rubio is now the maître d at the front of the house. Secretary Rubio is not using the menu options created by the kitchen team. The kitchen is not happy (drones into Moscow). DNI Gabbard in place as the IC hostess, is trying to keep the restaurant operation seamless so the customers generally don’t notice. Unfortunately, the kitchen isn’t soundproof, and we can hear plates crashing (NYT leaks).
Around the neighborhood, the locals are worried the kitchen staff might start spitting in their food if they are seen enjoying the new service and menu options. A few of the regulars have told the maître d and hostess about the rumors. The issue is being discussed as part of a pre-planned remodel.
The interior architect (Trump) and interior designer (Musk) are proposing to remove the walls so the customers can see the kitchen operation as part of a new and modern decor, style and ambiance [transparency]. However, the guys who eat in the kitchen aren’t going to be happy if they are exposed to the riffraff and forced to eat at ordinary tables.
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Find the damn leakers!!!
Loose lips…need to be cut off and stapled to the bulletin board by the water cooler.
Mark Levin will not be happy about this.
😁
Tonight’s show will be a Ouija board interview with McCain.
LOL
Israel has no expansionist ambitions in the Middle East regardless of crackpots like Douglas Macgregor who spew nonsense and are being cheered on by guys like Tucker, who just exploit the sentiment. Is Israel paranoid about its security? You bet it is. Can you blame them for it? The country is essentially surrounded by homicidal, poor, angry animals who have attacked it repeatedly.
President Trump is trying to negotiate a solution. He certainly can try. He will fail, though. The Iranian leadership is not Putin, and PM Netanyahu knows that. You cannot make deals with religious fanatics and nutjobs. When has that ever worked? But since we are providing the ammo—Israel will acquiesce and give President Trump some space. As the saying goes–we’ll see what happens. If it works, everybody wins. If it does not, Iran’s nuclear sites will be destroyed either by the U.S. and Israel, or just by Israel alone.
In the past, Israel has masterfully executed air raids in the region without U.S. support and took out nuclear facilities in both Iraq and Syria so we did not have to. And if I am not mistaken, Reagan was not all too happy with Israel taking out Saddam’s reactor but said “boys will be boys” when they did. And boy did that pay off when we invaded Iraq. To be clear, I am not discussing the motives; I am just saying as someone who was there and contrary to the “popular beliefs” (spread by the CIA), Saddam had no nukes.
You do not want people with the frame of mind of medieval savages and poor self-control to have nukes. That is certain.
“No expansionist ambitions”
Right . . .
I guess I’m just hallucinating Smotrich.
Pull the other one.
Any peace deal will be trading Iran’s recognition of Israel’s right to exist in return for Israel forever renouncing any claim to “Greater Israel.”
Exactly!
Crackpot talk again… Nobody cares about Iran’s “recognition” of Israel, and one of the reasons is that any deal with religious fanatics is not worth the paper it is written on. There can be no deal with Hamas, Iran’s mullahs, Al-Qaeda, Islamic Jihad, or the Muslim Brotherhood (read Erdogan’s Turkey).
The Muslim savages must be prevented from acquiring a nuke. Do you know what the current year is on the Muslim calendar? It is 1446. That alone should give you pause, Alex.
What’s different from President Trump want Bing to make Canada the 51st state?????
Wanting. Can’t edit on this device
And then people wonder why ME countries
don’t want to be bestie friends with Israel.
Some warped twisted 🥨 pretzel pretending
going on for way too long. Common sense
took the train out to nowhere quite some
time ago….😬🙄😏
🎶 Israel– even though you know we plan
on destroying and taking over your country…
you are the meanie for not wanting to be
our friend 🎶.
Just.No. Words.
This is a proof that some of us are more easily duped than others. You are literally watching a YouTube video made by TRT aka Turkish propaganda. This is Muslim Brotherhood…
It is like getting your news from CNN, MSNBC and the New York Times.
Israel never colonised lands They only want the biblical land G od promised. Contrast that to the Islamic colonisation of many countries in the world. Just about the whole of N Africa is colonised and spreading down sout as far as Mozambic and even South Africa with Islamists infiltrating the Anc and sending their Islamic scum as US envoys
This is what Alex is referring to.
Many articles out there.
Many articles and interviews by Israeli
officials..and others saying the same
thing🤷♀️ ….
Yeah…do not believe your ears or eyes
just believe the lies.
So how about this…….
Unless you are going to say that Times of Israel
is not a source to be used??
Jordan summons Israeli envoy over ‘racist’ Smotrich speech, ‘Greater Israel’ map | The Times of Israel
Tell your Mossad handler that unfortunately for your side, many Americans are waking up to What Israel is doing. No expansion plans lol? Yeah right. Israel took out Iraq’s nuclear site? Then why the excuse for weapons of mass destruction to invade Iraq? Who fed us that lie? Trashing our first amendment when it comes to any criticism of Israel. Criticize America or Christianity then it’s freedom of speech. Douglass MacGregor is a crackpot because he criticizes Israel but is a sound voice of reason on this site when he talks about Ukraine. Tucker has guests that expose the deep state or big pharma, he’s a brave journalist. Disagrees with more war in the ME? Something’s wrong with him. Notice the pattern people?
Then why the excuse for weapons of mass destruction to invade Iraq? Who fed us that lie?
Iraq HAD “weapons of mass destruction”
they gassed the Kurds with them
Yup.
Weren’t those the same ones given to them by the IC prior for the Iraq-Iran war or other?
dunno
I’ve heard rumors somewhere of Iraq getting old chemical weapons and possibly even nerve agents.
Which brings up the other thing I vaguely remember hearing about. That being the circumstances of Gulf War syndrome that afflicted many of our servicemen in Iraq. It was attributed to the burn pits they used in theater.
What if some of those troops were burning leftover stocks in place that Saddam did not destroy prior to Desert Shield/Desert Storm? Anything not completely incinerated could carry for miles on the wind and potentially cause numerous neurological and respiratory issues with just a minor exposure.
Syria apparently still has deeply stored nerve agents
Think I may have mixed up the events between both the wars in Iraq. Most of what I was thinking of was actually post 9/11 with the occupation of Iraq.
Still a lot of sketchy business there since the 80’s.
Kanye, is that you?
You have posted an unhinged, dissenting opinion rather than a valid counterargument (counterarguments explain, with logic, why X assertion is wrong with Y reason). Your argument is as such just a series of baseless, emotional assertions e.g.: Israel is ‘trashing’ our 1A right; Israel fed us the lie about WMD (allegedly Israel)… I mean, where is there left to go?
The fact that Macgregor is right on Ukraine does not make him less of a crackpot. Guys like Macgregor and Ron Paul often start from a legitimate insight, but lack either the intellectual humility or self-discipline to stop at the boundary of what the facts support. So they overshoot, and their credibility unravels. Like all demagogues, their MO is take a grain of truth, strip it of context or moderation, build entire frameworks on it that become detached from observable reality.
My Mossad handler… Is that it? You can criticize me, Israel, the United States, and even God, our Lord, if you feel like it. It is your right to do so as an American. My right as an American and vet is to call out your inconsistencies and BS… That is the same right, is it not?
👍🙂👍
Idiotic logic on your part: “Douglass MacGregor is a crackpot because he criticizes Israel but is a sound voice of reason on this site when he talks about Ukraine.”
Because someone has a measured intelligent opinion on one topic can’t make them a full fledged baloney sandwich on other issues?
A good case in point are the anti Semitic clowns. They can sprinkle in some good patriotic Christian memes all about and when that’s said and done, it’s off to the races minutes later with vile cruel anti Semitic trash.
Both the United States and Israel especially would be stupid to let Iran have nuclear weapons. Any country in the Middle East supporting the enemies of Israel deserves servitude to Israel.
“……crackpots like Douglas Macgregor who spew nonsense……”
From that point the rest of your diatribe got the scroll over.
No sale.
Medieval savages?
Persians? Those people?
Huh. Interesting.
Most of the Iranians I meet are pretty fine people. But hey, let’s keep going with the chickenhawks perspective on world affairs.
Israeli intelligence murdered JFK because he was serious about stopping nuclear proliferation and David Ben Gurion was hell bent on developing a nuclear arsenal at Israel’s Dimona Reactor. They murdered his brother RFK because he was going to actually investigate it. This is just ONE episode in a thousand of all the sinister duplicitous hardcore treachery the cult within the Kazarian community have inflicted on the world. The vast majority of Jews are decent people who are not part of this monstrosity but the Central Bankers and Oligarchs in their demographic are evil beyond measure. Look up the King David Hotel Bombing for just one example from Israeli’s founding.
Ask yourself, why does Israel have a designated handler via AIPAC for every single member of our 538 elected representatives? No other country on earth comes even close. Why did “our greatest ally” employ the likes of Jeffrey Epstein to create the world’s largest database for blackmail against all of the influential Western leaders in every realm from politics to media to science etc?
“The congressional zoning commission (House) is sympathetic to the long-term contract held by the chef, and the Israeli chamber of commerce are paying the county commissioners (senators) ‘indulgency fees’ to maintain the current ingress and egress.”
Thanks for revealing your true feelings. I have enjoyed reading your content in the past and have felt it to be accurate and rational. But blaming the Jews for all of the evil going on in the world is just that same old blood libel from Christian antisemitism.
Not the Jews, Einstein. The Israeli government deep state. Big difference.
Just like the U.S. Deep State does not equate to American citizens.
Dead on. These people do not realize that they behave like the Democrats they despise, equating criticism of their policies and star politicians like Obama, AOC with being “terrorists” or a “threat to democracy.”
Trump is very much opposed to war in general and war with Iran, in particular, regardless of how much he supports Israel.
Remember when Iran attacked some ship of ours and the chant went up that we needed to go to war with Iran or we were weak?
Trump did not take the bait. But he did not hesitate to assassinate the Qud leader whose name I have forgotten, in Iraq.
Maybe that is why Iran’s missile strike on Israel was telegraphed hours in advance and used slow flying drones that were easy for Israel to swat down? Maybe Iran does not want a wider war with the US?
I think Israel and the CIA have ALWAYS “been in alignment.”
Great move by Trump. Keep us out of Israel’s BS wars.
On a related topic:
Russia Issues Dire Warning: Germany Will Be ‘Active Combatant’ If Taurus Missiles Hit Russian Targets
Can’t wait. A reckoning with Germany/EU is long overdue.
There seems to be more Israel hatred here than one would expect to find at Harvard.
It’s gotten way worse over the last 2 years. People say things here that any decent human being would have been totally ashamed to have had overheard. I am seeing more and more how Crystal Night could ever have happened in a Christian country like Germany. I’m not Jewish but I will stand with the Jews and Israel.
Me too. Against Jew haters and rabid islamists.
It’s not Israel hatred. It’s the hatred of the U.S. being pulled into another dead-end war in the ME. Trump is not going to get us involved in these wars. Our policy regarding the ME should be to let Israel defend itself without our involvement. We can sell them weapons and planes, as would to any ally, but we should not dictate how they use them.
Bless your heart. That stick that has worked in the past for you has grown ineffective. It isn’t working anymore. Go back and tell your handlers that the Americans have become aware.
“Within five hours of the attack on New York City and Washington, D.C., Rumsfeld had already ordered his aides to begin preparing attacks on Iraq. While divisions within the administration delayed the invasion for 19 months, the wheels had been set in motion. Within a year PNAC’s ideas were encapsulated in the Bush Doctrine, with Iraq the first real-world test. All the real evidence showing Saddam Hussein had no connection to the 9/11 attacks was useless against the concocted evidence the administration and its leading PNACers arrayed against doubters at home and abroad.”
Blast from the Past: PNAC’s 1998 Letter to Clinton
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2008/1/27/444438/-Blast-from-the-Past:-PNACs-1998-Letter-to-Clinton
“Blast from the Past: PNAC’s 1998 Letter to Clinton”
From the letter:
“….The imperialist dreams and strategies expressed in these manifestoes can be traced back to ideas contained in the 1992 Defense Planning Guidance, a document written by Paul Wolfowitz and his deputy, I. Lewis Libby, in the office of then-Secretary of Defense Cheney. After being leaked to excoriating reviews in the press, President H.W. Bush ordered it to be rewritten and toned down….”
So it was “toned down” for public consumption – but the Neocons went full blast ahead with it anyway. It just took them a few more years to fully implement than they would have liked. They finally got rid of Assad in Syria.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfowitz_Doctrine
Sundance,
Details are important. Where is the ear scar /s
it’s the new bronze ear shield, a protective cover
like battle shields in Trojan times
The heresy of chiliasm is an aspect of this situation.
The Church rejected chiliasm centuries ago.
Iran is happy to run the clock on Trump’s term. They will “negotiate” for 2 years. Make a half-assed agreement to delay or forego nukes and then as soon as Trump is out of office break the agreement. Everyone knows this. Yet everyone pretends to play the game. Wash, rinse, repeat.
True. In Islam a Hudna/ peace agreement is only for 10 yrs. After that it’s war again. Besides they are notorious liars whose motto is Taqiyya
Iran will simply lie. Taqjyah – lie while you’re weak and attack when you’re strong. The only way to trust Iran is if there is regime change. That is the only thing the CIA should be working on. Eliminating the Mullahs.
That’s worked out very well in the past. / s
It’s not MR TRUMP, it’s PRESIDENT TRUMP. No respect from the NY Slimes. They always called Biden President Biden