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There is a floating intelligence and targeting platform - the Behshad - manned by a designated Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO) called the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) directing Houthi attacks against commercial vessels in the Red Sea.
CENTCOM wants to take out this platform directing and coordinating these attacks, but the Pentagon and the White House won’t let that happen - they falsely believe that doing so would broaden the scope of the war.
Those making the argument that any actions that make Tehran feel pain “will lead to war with Iran” don’t understand that THIS IS WHAT WAR WITH IRAN LOOKS LIKE - and we are letting them win.
The Playbook: Iran turns up the heat through its proxies in order to get the West to make concessions that economically and militarily benefit Tehran. Iran knows better than any country that there is no better team at making concessions and ceding leverage than this WH. They know it so well because Biden's team is Obama's JCPOA/Iraq/Syria team.
Former Centcom spokesman @JoeBuccino10 said earlier this week White House has “disapproved many times” Centcom plans to strike harder against the Houthis and inside Iran. “There are a series of targets you can strike that will not ignite a war, but will send a message and will really inflict pain. That's really what you got to do here.”
The Biden administration’s now-suspended Iran envoy Robert Malley helped to fund, support, and direct an Iranian intelligence operation designed to influence the United States and allied governments, according to a trove of purloined Iranian government emails. The emails, which were reported on by veteran Wall Street Journal correspondent Jay Solomon, writing in Semafor, and by Iran International, the London-based émigré opposition outlet which is the most widely read independent news source inside Iran, were published last week after being extensively verified over a period of several months by the two outlets. They showed that Malley had helped to infiltrate an Iranian agent of influence named Ariane Tabatabai into some of the most sensitive positions in the U.S. government—first at the State Department and now the Pentagon, where she has been serving as chief of staff for the assistant secretary of defense for special operations, Christopher Maier.