Intelligence report warned of Iran's 'persistent threat' to US as White House downplayed the risk

Yeah that seems likely. There’s a ton of vulnerable infrastructure here in the homeland, they’ve done multiple studies showing things like our power plants and other infrastructure have woefully inadequate security. Doesn’t help that the dinosaurs in congress have been utterly allergic to any meaningful regulation since Reagan as well. So “private enterprise” frequently has dogshit cybersecurity, and even industries that ARE regulated, like healthcare, have vaguely worded standards and regulation like HIPAA dating back to the Clinton administration in 1996 that really ought to be meaningfully revised and codified with specific standards to harden these industries against attacks. Countries like Iran could f*** up any number of things in the U.S. remotely, coupled with sporadic acts of terrorism, regardless of what the market manipulating blowhard likes to pretend is happening to the Fox News audience while they settle in with a delicious bottle of paste to snack on. This nonsense isn’t a game, nothing was gained in the national interest by this conflict, if anything we’re all now just stuck paying additional tolls on oil transported through the strait that were completely avoidable by not wasting untold amounts of taxpayer money and several American lives achieving absolutely nothing whatsoever.

That pertains to nothing on the actual article. They’re stating that Iran would be a threat inside the actual US, due to the war and White House downplayed it. Obviously the intelligence wasn’t true because there have been ZERO attacks inside the US.

We may still find those one of these days /s

Can confirm. I was born in 1980 and I'm still 5.5 weeks old.

Thing about this, while your argument is just ZOG conspiracy bullshit: - Iran has actively been stopped from creating the bomb, Stuxnet and co. come to mind. - Enriching to weaponsgrade levels gets faster the closer you are to it, if you have it up to ~60% or so, IIRC, it will only take a few weeks to get there. - Iran purposefully has stopped at the above level, as the threat of them having it is/was more useful as a bargaining chip. So, yes, Iran is only ~6-ish weeks aways from it, if they are allowed to do so, and decide to do so, perpetually. Just, try using that thing between your ears? Its not hard.

And it wasn’t even CLOSE to being true Trump tower was, at the time, like the 13th tallest building in New York and is now like 30th.  Just from memory don’t quote me on the exact details but I researched this a long time ago when I saw he’d made that claim

Who’s leader was found hiding out in… … pakistan

And intelligence received highly specific and detailed information about an impending attack in the weeks prior…

That’s the Art of the Deal!

None of the gulf nations have a military comparable to Iran. Iran has as many troops as the rest combined.

'We keep meddling and pressuring this country, funding its enemies and surrounding it with military bases. After we stopped being able to coup them at will, we both propped up our military industrial complexes by endlessly saber rattling and grandstanding at each other for 40 years despite existing half a world away from one another.  Somehow being a persistent and borderline omnipotent existential threat that is too powerful to face directly has made the populace and government somewhat irate and open to considering asymmetric warfare.' Man intelligence officers have the easiest job in the world, half of them are probably just reading the history books they took out of state schools and using some common sense.

So trump can arm rebels in Iran and announce that on live TV, same by metanyahu but god forbid Iran does the same. Nooooooooooo muh american soil. Shit man. That means nothing now. Iran has shown you hit them, they will hit back. Be ready. Be always ready.

Ah yes, the bad faith troll come, inexorably, to try and muddy the waters in an all-too-familiarly weak attempt.