Trump’s ‘Reckless’ Iran Action Torn Apart By Ex-Pentagon Adviser

Donald Trump’s “reckless” decision to join Israel with strikes against Iran has been demolished by a former Pentagon adviser.

The US initiated the largest American military operation in the Middle East for two decades at the weekend but the end goal still remains unclear.

Jasmine El-Gamal, who worked in the US Department of Defence between 2008 and 2015 under Barack Obama, pointed out that the president appears to have little justification for the deadly attacks.

“The pathway to escalation is wide open” within the region, she noted, as Iran has hit back with its own strikes on Israel and US military bases across the Middle East.

El-Gamal told Sky News: “We are now getting to the point where Iran is desperately trying to maintain its survival as a regime.

“And you have a US president who is desperately trying to maintain his credibility ahead of midterm elections and trying to make sense of his decision to go to war.”

Pointing to Trump’s bizarre mixed messaging over just why the States had decided to attack Iran, El-Gamal said: “What you saw him today doing was retroactively trying to justify his decision to go to war, once again, smack bang in the middle of negotiations with the regime.”

Iran was engaging in talks with the west to set up a new deal to limit its ability to build nuclear weapons just last week, though negotiations ended without an agreement.

El-Gamal continued: “You’ve seen the justification go everywhere from saying, ‘this is for you, the Iranian people, once in a several generation opportunity, go for it’.

“Three days later, he’s listing other objectives, not one of them mentioned the Iranian people or their freedom.

“It’s about missiles, which supposedly can one day make it over to the US – no intelligence backs that up.

“It’s about the nuclear programme – there were talks in progress when he decided to strike.”

Trump has also said the war is about proxies and naval ships, even though the latter has “never been mentioned before”, the specialist pointed out.

She said Iran is “acting reckless” with its retaliation, but added: “We also need to talk about how reckless the US president has been in going into this war and dragging the entire region with him.”