Pentagon official refutes Trump over list of '52 targets' in Iran: 'No list adds up to that number'

[riversedge]

Source: raw story





Published 1 hour ago on January 5, 2020



A senior U.S. military official doesn’t appear to be aware of what President Donald Trump is talking about when he says there is a list of 52 Iranian targets he could strike.

On Twitter Saturday, Trump told Iran that he has a list that represents the 52 hostages taken during the crisis between 1979 and 1981. The locations are said to be cultural sites important to the Iranian people.


A TIME report on Iraq deciding to vote American soldiers out of the country, interviewed a U.S. military official who said he was unfamiliar with the list.

“There are different lists, depending on the nature of the possible targets — missile bases, nuclear facilities, naval bases, airfields, et cetera — but I don’t know of a list that adds up to that number or one that includes cultural or historic sites like Persepolis,” he said.

According to a CNN report, two senior officials said that there is “widespread opposition within the administration to targeting cultural sites in Iran,” if Trump decides to retaliate.
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I am so glad the Pentagon is exposing lying dirty Trump!

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[ZZenith]

1. Guess who just ordered a drone strike on Persepolis.

And guess who wasn’t even aware of its existence until Pentagon guy blabbed.

[Flaleftist]

2. Cultural sites sounds like he is going to intentionally kill civilians.

[rickyhall]

9. And that would be a War Crime

Not unlike what the Turks did to Armenia.

[ancianita]

3. Any order to strike somewhere - esp. any UNESCO World Heritage Site - should be subject to override

by military brass.

[Cartoonist]

4. He meant 57

[keithbvadu2]

5. Cultural sites... Would Jared approve bombing the Western Wall? Ivanka's daddy would.

Cultural sites... Would Jared approve bombing the Western Wall? Ivanka's daddy would.

[DBoon]

6. We spared cultural sites in WWII

no matter how vile the Axis countries were, we spared historic, cultural, and religious sites as much as possible.

This puts Trump in the same league as the Taliban who dynamited ancient Buddhist monuments.

[Wuddles440]

7. I'm confused......

isn't the destruction of cultural heritage sites right out of the ISIL playbook? Is our Dear Leader actually a member of ISIL or, at the very least, sympathetic to their cause? If so, how will Lindsey, Mitch, Hannity and the rest of the toadies spin this one?

[choie]

8. So we're going to start a war

because if what Iran did 40 years ago??

[EarthFirst]

10. The '52' Tweet was by no accident...

He’s ‘branding’ the effort to sell his war with a catchy; simple to remember ‘jingle’ for the demographic who cannot process journalism outside of 30-second clips of garbage.

[Bayard]

11. So....if its only 50 sites,

Will they go ahead and bomb them?

You don't bomb cultural sites that would be full of ordinary citizens and tourists. Is The Hague the only power that will finally hold tRump accountable for his actions?

Military: Do not be complicit in war crimes!