Source: Antiwar.com
by Ted Snider
“Former President and President-elect Donald Trump has been tarred, inconsistently with his actual record, with the charge of being soft on Russia. He has never been charged with being soft on Iran. Trump unilaterally and illegally pulled out of the JCPOA nuclear agreement with Iran. He imposed devastating sanctions on Iran. He ordered the assassination of General Qassem Soleimani, Iran’s top general and the head of Iran’s elite Quds Force. General Mark Milley, who served as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff in the last Trump administration, says he feared that Trump would launch missile strikes on Iran that could trigger an all out war. ‘If you do this,’ Milley told him, ‘you’re gonna have a fucking war.’ Trump’s transition team is already working on plans to ‘drastically increase sanctions on Iran and throttle its oil sales.'” (11/18/24)