According to administration officials, President Trump has ordered the
escalation of a “secret” government program to try to sabotage Iranian
rockets. Officials say the goal is to “undercut Tehran’s military and isolate its economy.”
This is in keeping with Trump’s general hostility toward Iran, though
officials concede it’s impossible to know what, if anything, the secret
program has accomplished. Some point to recent failures to put Iranian
satellites in orbit as a sign of success.
Yet the merits of such a program are unclear at best. While the US and
Israel both were very open about trying to sabotage Iranian nuclear
efforts,when they had such programs at all, keeping Iranian satellites
out of space is not exactly a noble military goal, and the costs of a
secret program are likely far beyond what such an achievement would be
worth.
The US has angrily opposed the idea of Iran trying to put anything into
space, claiming a UN nuclear resolution forbade conventional launches of
satellites. Iran has ruled out giving up on this, however.
Is this the same “secret” program that saw an American female counter intelligence officer defect to Iran because she wanted to use her skills for “good and not evil”? Being a counter intel officer, she knew what the Iranians were up to well ahead of her decision. This fascinates me.
“not exactly a noble goal” duh, how about “act of war” or “frogmarch trump to The Hague”