Earlier this week, US officials were justifying redeployments out of the Middle East, arguing Iran was no longer the threat they once were because of coronavirus. But a night of US attacks against Iraqi targets has US officials again convinced Iran is a threat.
Centcom commander Gen. Frank McKenzie praised the many US attacks in Iraq as successful, while saying the threat posed by Iran “remains very high,” suggesting the attacks were sending them a signal.
McKenzie also says that the US decision to keep two aircraft carrier groups in the Middle East is related to US hostility toward Iran, saying it is meant to deter Iranian retaliation. This retaliation would be for US attacks on Iraqi Shi’ite militias, which the US presents as Iranian proxies.
Just two and a half months into 2020, this is the second major flareup in US-Iran tensions leading to fear of a war. As with the previous one, it involves the US carrying out attacks heedlessly in Iraq, without a thought for what comes next.
Maybe we can get a sixth grader to tell the brain dead general the solution. Iran isn’t a threat unless you are there. So fucking simple.
Yeah, but he wants to be there. Or rather his troops there, high brass being to valuable for that first wave.
Centcom commander Gen. Frank McKenzie-yeah, this guy prob checks under his bed before going to sleep.
What a war monger-his speech to foundation for defense of democracies (FDD) was a classic in war mongering, prob lobbying for job as did mcmaster.
Gross, obvious, pathetic!
Due to the Coronavirus, Iran is no longer a threat. And yet, due to the fact that Iran is still a threat, we are keeping troops in Iraq. If only I could be as smart and intelligent as the people who ruin… oops, I mean run our country.
Heck no, now that Iran has a bioweapon the Pentagon has to nuke them. (Er, this is sarcasm…)
Yes, indeed the Iranians are secretly “growing” bioweapons in the bodies of their sick and dying population, all to be used at a future date to destroy Israel. LOL.
For once, the truth. Iran threat remains high. Yes, we are very good at threatening. And we are maintaining the threat at the very high level. Now we just need to have COVID-19 test kits available to troops to insure nothing disrupts the high threat level we maintain in the region.
US General claims Iran Threat Very High.
The Whole World KNOWS that the US threat to World Security is even higher.
I cannot think of another nation that is anywhere NEAR as great a threat to global security as the US government (and the puppetmasters that control it).
so,lets see, iran has no aggression toward others, has not engaged in any wars for 100’s of years,but they are a “threat”. these fools need to check into the nearest mental health facility along with the politicians and trump.
Any wars other than self defense. They did war with Iraq, with our assistance, for 8 years. That’s when Saddam was still in our good graces.
the war with iraq was self defense. iraq invaded.
The “threat” is that Iran might become a functioning society if the US doesn’t continue screwing it over and over. Venezuela and others too. Yankees, go home.
Pentagon Generals will probably advise nuking Iran, now that they have COVID-19.
Every other country in the world will eventually catch the cold, but the Iran pandemic threat is a special case..
“Israel told me to say this…..”