Esber denies Trump’s statements about Iranian plans to attack four embassies
On January 12, US Defense Secretary Mark Esber accused US President Donald Trump of lying when Trump claimed that there were Iranian plans to target four US embassies, stressing “ the lack of specific evidence” from US intelligence officials that Iran was planning to do so.
Esber’s statement also contradicted his previous statements and confirmed the falsehood of the allegations of US administration officials regarding many issues, including the allegations that were made about the assassination of the commander of the Quds Force in the Iranian Revolutionary Guards, Lieutenant General Qassem Soleimani and Abu Mahdi Al-Muhandis, deputy head of the Iraqi Popular Units and their fellow fighters recently.
Esber told CBS television that Trump’s comments to Fox News were not based on specific evidence of an attack on four embassies.
Asked whether US intelligence had provided evidence of the attack on US embassies, Esber said, “I have seen nothing about four embassies.”
In turn, Democratic Representative Adam Schiff, Head of the Intelligence Committee in the US House of Representatives and a member of the Group of Eight, confirmed that “the group has not received any information regarding possible attacks on four embassies,” noting that the group “did not discuss in any statement targeting four embassies specifically.”
Esber had previously said in an earlier interview with CNN that “the American administration has received accurate intelligence information suggesting a large-scale attack on a number of embassies, and that this information can only be seen by the Group of Eight”, which is a group of senior leaders of Congress who are in the know about sensitive information that other members of Congress cannot obtain.
Earlier, CNN revealed that Trump spent what it described as “a week of dishonesty” by making about 15 false allegations during the past week and adding the new number to Trump’s lies, which according to the CNN have reached about 1555 since the eighth of last July in addition to thousands of incorrect allegations made before that.
O. al-Mohammad