Pompeo has been ticked of lying by linking Al-Qaeda with Iran
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- Published: Wednesday, 22 May 2019 07:52
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Photo: RHCWashington, May 22. - US intelligence officials have denied the accusations by the US Secretary of State on alleged links between Al-Qaeda and Iran.
Three sources cited by the US website The Daily Beast claim that neither the US Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo, nor the acting secretary of defense (the Pentagon), Patrick Shanahan, have any evidence of alleged collaborations with Tehran with the mentioned terrorist group, for which they were harshly criticized by the US legislators.
"The US intelligence agencies they have no evidence that Al-Qaeda has cooperated with the Iranian government, "a US intelligence official said during a briefing (behind closed doors) Tuesday between senior officials of President Donald Trump's administration and members of Congress on the recent escalation of Washington's tensions with Iran.
In this way, assures the media, the high-ranking US officials seeking war with Iran, such as National Security Adviser John Bolton, could not launch attacks against the Persian country without the authorization of Congress, since they cannot justify them with the authorization for the Use of the Military Force (AUMF), adopted in 2001 after the attacks of September 11, because even the intelligence of the United States refutes these unfounded accusations against Iran.
In turn, sources cited by the American magazine Time are not surprised at the conclusion of the US secret services. and ridicule Pompeo's accusations, while recalling that elements directly or indirectly linked to Al-Qaeda have carried out terrorist attacks in Iran.
In U.S.A. It is feared that the war measures will eventually cause a conflict, in which the loser would be the US, so they warn against the efforts of certain US authorities to raise tensions with Iran. (RHC)
