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At least Bush had ‘the dignity to lie’, says advocate
Jamal Abdi, president of the National Iranian American Council (NIAC), a think-tank that promotes diplomacy, says Trump’s rejection of the US intelligence community’s assessment that Iran is not building a nuclear weapon shows that the war is his choice.
“Is Netanyahu now calling the shots and giving the president intelligence that he values over the United States’s intelligence? That’s why that that remark is so shocking,” Abdi told Al Jazeera.
“I mean, at least when George W Bush started his endless war, he had the dignity to lie to us about WMDs. Trump is just saying: ‘I don’t care what the facts are. We’re just doing this anyway because I say so’.”
Trump: ‘We now have complete and total control of the skies over Iran’
Trump says “we now have complete and total control of the skies over Iran” despite US forces having not announced direct engagement in the hostilities.
It is not clear who the “we” in the statement is referring to.
“Iran had good sky trackers and other defensive equipment, and plenty of it, but it doesn’t compare to American made, conceived, and manufactured ‘stuff.’ Nobody does it better than the good ol’ USA,” Trump wrote in a social media post.
Iran claims to shoot down 28 ‘hostile aircraft’
Iran’s army says it has tracked and intercepted 28 “hostile aircraft” in the past 24 hours. It says one of them was a spy drone trying to gain intelligence on “sensitive” sites.
Iran’s military has previously claimed to have shot down numerous Israeli fighter jets.
Israel denies this and says no crews or planes have been harmed during the operations in Iran.
