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8:30Now PlayingDonald Trump scrambles to put his story together after Fox News reporter Peter Doocy calls out the disastrous retaliation after the bombing of Tehran. John Iadarola and Keith Edwards break it down on The Damage Report. Leave a comment with your thoughts below!
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Trump said ‘nobody’ saw Iran’s retaliation coming. One person did.
"President Donald Trump on Monday claimed that “nobody” expected Iran to launch retaliatory attacks across the Middle East after the U.S. and Israel bombed Tehran on Feb. 28.
But just four days before the U.S.-Israeli strike sparked the Iran war, a former State Department official who served on Trump’s Iran negotiating team warned of this exact scenario unfolding.
On Feb. 24, Foreign Affairs magazine published an article titled “Why Iran Will Escalate” by Nate Swanson, the Director for Iran at the National Security Council between 2022 and 2025.
Swanson wrote of the potential “quagmire” the U.S. could find itself in by waging a war on Iran. Just days prior to the U.S.-Israeli bombing that killed Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, Swanson wrote that the president’s “own behavior increases the risk of escalation.”"
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