Former US Secretary of Defense claims: We prevented the attack on Iran
According to IRNA on Monday, Speer said that people in the White House from time to time came up with the idea of attacking Venezuela and Iran and even once spoke about the naval siege of Cuba.
According to the former head of the Pentagon, he, along with Gen. Mark Millie, the chief of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, opposed these views and rejected them.
According to Speer, Millie had proposed a “four no” against the “insane” ideas that were being proposed in the White House.
He added: “We had to prevent four things from happening until the election (US President 2020): strategic retreats, unnecessary war, politicization of the military and their abuse.”
Speer said in the interview that Donald Trump once privately suggested to him that the United States launch a missile at Mexico to destroy drug production sites.
The former US president issued a statement in response to the remarks, calling Speer a weakling who only wanted to retain his position and led him to personally take over the military.
In his book, The Holy Oath, Speer reveals that, contrary to claims by former US officials that a senior Iranian commander had threatened the United States, his assassination was aimed at gaining Trump a spot in the 2020 election.
The Guardian website wrote on Friday night (May 17th) that, shortly before the 2020 presidential election, the remarks of O’Brien, former national security adviser to Donald Trump’s administration, Mark Millie, the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, shocked.
O’Brien had told Milli that Trump wanted to assassinate a senior Iranian commander. “It was a very bad idea with huge consequences,” writes Mark Speer, the Trump administration’s second secretary of defense.
He goes on to say that, in Mark Millie’s view, Trump’s idea was entirely in the political interests of the former US president.
“In a meeting in July 2020, O’Brien pressured Trump to take military action against Iran over its uranium enrichment, which accelerated after the United States withdrew from the UN Security Council,” Speer wrote.
He added: “In this meeting, O’Brien is pressuring Trump for military action against Iran, and Mike Pence, Trump’s deputy at the time, was sitting in his chair in silence. But Mark Meadows, Trump’s chief of staff, interrupted O’Brien and the idea was forgotten.
In his book, however, Speer says that a month after the meeting, Milli informed the former Secretary of Defense, quoting O’Brien, that “the US president intends to target a senior Iranian commander operating abroad. “