Frustrated with CIA, Trump administration turned to Pentagon for shadow war with Iran

The campaign, which was to be led by the military’s Special Operations forces, was designed to undermine the Iranian people’s faith in their government as well as shake the regime’s sense of competence and stability, according to those former officials.

The Department of Defense and the CIA declined to comment. The White House referred queries to the Pentagon. Gen. Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, escorts incoming Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin III to the Pentagon on Austin's first day in his new role on Jan. 22, 2021. “It’s a very detailed escalation ladder,” said the former official. “It’s not like all of a sudden you go from zero to 60.”

Gen. Frank McKenzie, the head of U.S. Central Command, was an ardent proponent of the Iran-focused actions, according to former officials, who said Gen. Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, consistently slow-rolled the proposal. The plan, which officials said had been under development for years, involved operations that would take at least six months to get up and running once they were approved by the president. “Trump was briefed that none of these things were going to take place in his time” in office, said the former senior defense official.

Defense Secretary Jim Mattis speaks at a White House reception in 2018 as then-President Donald Trump looks on. In the end, Trump national security officials concluded that, though the CIA may have been obstructing their directives on Iran, the agency likely did not possess the capabilities to carry out the types of covert action demanded by administration policymakers.

You think that's bad, The Dims have been doing that for more than four years to citizens right here that don't agree with their policies. President Trump, being the worst example of their malicious actions.

THE IRANIANS WILL COLLASPE THEIR OWN GOV...ITS AREADY HAPPENING.

oh no the system, its broken

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