Bolton Had Pentagon Draw Up “Far-Reaching Military Options To Strike Iran”

• Has Iran attacked America? NO! Is Iran a threat to America? NO! So why is America so intent on waging war against Iran? Why has America been waging economic and financial war against Iran for many decades? It is the Deep State, the western Illuminati, which is using the American military, in their world conquest, world domination plans. It has nothing to do with peace or prosperity or fighting terrorism.
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• Bolton Had Pentagon Draw Up “Far-Reaching Military Options To Strike Iran”
  by Tyler Durden, https://www.zerohedge.com/
  The Wall Street Journal published an Iran bombshell Sunday morning, confirming the White House had the Pentagon prepare “military options” to strike the country last year. The sudden request, seen as an unprecedented Iraq-style “shock and awe” attack on Iran, caught the Pentagon off guard, to the point that “State Dept. and Pentagon officials were rattled by the request” which officials further told the WSJ was “mind-boggling” and “cavalier” in terms of how brazen it was.
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  The request for military options came in early September after the United States accused Iran-backed militias in Iraq of firing three mortars at the US Embassy and diplomatic compound in Baghdad, and at a time that riots and political instability were spreading throughout some major cities in Iraq, especially in the south. It was also an opportunity for noted Iran hawk and national security advisor John Bolton to push for “far-reaching military options to strike Iran” — a regime change project he’s pushed in public many years prior to taking his White House post last April.
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  The request, which hasn’t been previously reported, came after militants fired three mortars into Baghdad’s sprawling diplomatic quarter, home to the U.S. Embassy, on a warm night in early September. The shells—launched by a group aligned with Iran—landed in an open lot and harmed no one.
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  But they triggered unusual alarm in Washington, where Mr. Trump’s national security team led by John Bolton conducted a series of meetings to discuss a forceful American response, including what many saw as the unusual request for options to strike Iran.
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  Though it’s unclear if the strike options ended up on President Trump’s desk following the formal request from the National Security Council, or if they were ever seriously considered by the White House, “It definitely rattled people,” one former senior U.S. administration official described. “People were shocked. It was mind-boggling how cavalier they were about hitting Iran,” the source said.
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  The WSJ report confirms through admin officials that Bolton has, alongside Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, stuck by his prior public stance of seeking regime change in Tehran, even though Bolton has also acknowledged regime change in Tehran is not part of the president’s agenda.
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