“No one should doubt the resolve of the United States of America,” Miller said.
The anniversary of the US killing of Iran’s IRGC Quds Force commander Qasem Soleimani was coming in a week. The US wanted to be ready for any eventuality.
It was also a period of chaos in the world order. The pandemic had been going on for a year. Israel was just rolling out its first mass vaccination program. In Washington the US president, Donald Trump, was refusing to concede the election. Soon riots would break out in Washington on January 6.
Iran still had Mohammad Javad Zarif as is foreign minister. As the new year dawned, he was spreading rumors that “new intelligence from Iraq indicate that Israeli agent-provocateurs are plotting attacks against Americans” and that this would lead to a “trap” for US president Donald Trump. He alleged a conspiracy was afoot that would plunge the US and Iran into war. We now know that no such thing happened, and it was part of his antisemitic dog whistle that was seeking to portray Israel as the reason for US-Iran tensions. READ MORE
