The Trump Administration Has No Idea What It’s Doing With Iran

Intelligence officials say U.S. claims about Iranian hostility are misleading

Mitchell Prothero
GEN
Published in
4 min readMay 16, 2019

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U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo spent the last week engaged in a flurry of diplomatic meetings with Iraq, Russia, and Belgium, all meant to drum up support for the Trump administration’s increasingly hard-line stance toward…

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Mitchell Prothero
GEN
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I write about foreign policy and security issues. Currently reside in Athens, Greece with a stray cat named Sybil.