{"id":188458,"date":"2019-05-17T07:40:08","date_gmt":"2019-05-17T07:40:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=188458"},"modified":"2019-05-19T07:48:26","modified_gmt":"2019-05-19T07:48:26","slug":"trump-tells-aides-he-doesnt-want-war-with-iran-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=188458","title":{"rendered":"Trump tells aides he doesn&#8217;t want war with Iran: report"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>John Bowden \u2013 The Hill May 16, 2019<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">President Trump has\u00a0reportedly informed acting Defense Secretary <a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/people\/patrick-shanahan\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Patrick Shanahan<\/strong><\/span><\/a> that he does not want to see the U.S. go to war with Iran, sending a message to hawkish White House aides who have been accused of pushing the U.S. toward conflict.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\"><a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/05\/16\/world\/middleeast\/iran-trump.html\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>The New York Times reported<\/strong><\/span><\/a>\u00a0Thursday that Trump raised the issue Wednesday during a briefing on the status of U.S. forces in the Middle East in the White House Situation Room. The president reportedly directly informed Shanahan that he did not want to see a conflict between the two countries.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">News of Trump&#8217;s reported\u00a0remarks to Shanahan comes as the president has sought to publicly tamp down reports of infighting among his staff, including national security adviser <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #ccffff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/people\/john-bolton\">John Bolton<\/a><\/strong><\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">\u201cThe Fake News Washington Post, and even more Fake News New York Times, are writing stories that there is infighting with respect to my strong policy in the Middle East. There is no infighting whatsoever,\u201d Trump tweeted on Wednesday. \u201cDifferent opinions are expressed, and I make a decisive and simple decision \u2014 it\u2019s a very simple process. All sides, views, and policies are covered.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">&#8230;.Different opinions are expressed and I make a decisive and final decision &#8211; it is a very simple process. All sides, views, and policies are covered. I\u2019m sure that Iran will want to talk soon.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\/status\/1128739521753907202?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 15, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Bolton, in particular, has been at the center of criticism from some on the left for his aggressive rhetoric about Iran\u00a0and has been accused of taking a hawkish stance toward policy there. Secretary of State <a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/people\/mike-pompeo\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Mike Pompeo<\/strong><\/span><\/a> has also faced criticism\u00a0over the threat posed by Iran.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The two men\u00a0<a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/administration\/443978-trump-frustrated-with-advisors-over-iran-wants-to-speak-to-iranian\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>have reportedly\u00a0drawn the president&#8217;s ire<\/strong><\/span><\/a> in recent days. The Washington Post reported Wednesday that Trump has grown frustrated with his top advisers over Iran, saying hard-line aides could rush the U.S. into a military struggle with\u00a0Tehran and break his campaign pledge to avoid costly foreign wars.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">\u201cThey are getting way out ahead of themselves, and Trump is annoyed,\u201d one senior Trump administration official said of the two aides. \u201cThere was a scramble for Bolton and Pompeo and others to get on the same page.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Trump, that official added, wants to speak with leaders of Iran and find a diplomatic solution and is not comfortable with talk of war with the country.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">\u201cHe is not comfortable with all this \u2018regime change\u2019 talk,\u201d the official\u00a0said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The Pentagon has reportedly presented the president with\u00a0options for the deployment of 120,000 U.S. troops to the Middle East to respond to Iranian attempts to construct a nuclear weapon or attack U.S. interests.\u00a0On Sunday, Bolton announced that a carrier strike force, as well as a bomber task group, had been assigned to the Persian Gulf<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/policy\/defense\/444098-trump-tells-aides-he-doesnt-want-war-with-iran-report\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unfortunately Trump tends to revoke past agreements, as with the Iran nuclear accord, or go back on his word, as in his promise to end US overseas military involvements. So this latest pronouncement means nothing   <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[61,41,51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-188458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-Commentary","category-Inside_the_White_House_and_Washingtons_Beltway","category-Iran"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188458","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=188458"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188458\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":188464,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188458\/revisions\/188464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=188458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=188458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=188458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}