Leaks and fatwas are the order of the day, all designed to induce the ever egotistical Donald Trump to continue down the path of self destruction by, among other things, launching war on Iran. The Washington Post, that paragon of journalism whose editor once announced on the editorial page that it would never cover American statesman Lyndon LaRouche unless it was to slander him, played its part yesterday by receiving another leak designed to question Trump’s assertions that the June 21 air strikes on Iran “obliterated” its nuclear program.
The leak this time concerns a claim that U.S. intelligence obtained intercepted communication between senior Iranian officials discussing the U.S. air strikes and remarking that the attack was less devastating than they had expected.
“The intercepted signals intelligence is the latest preliminary information offering a more complicated picture than the one conveyed by the president, who has said the operation ‘completely and totally obliterated’ Iran’s nuclear program,” the Post intones.
Predictably, the White House went ballistic over this latest leak. “It’s shameful that the Washington Post is helping people commit felonies by publishing out-of-context leaks,” said White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt. “The notion that unnamed Iranian officials know what happened under hundreds of feet of rubble is nonsense. Their nuclear weapons program is over.” While the Post postures itself as trying to clarify what the truth is about the damage inflicted on Iranian nuclear facilities, it’s part of a media drumbeat intended to induce Trump to launch more air strikes on Iran.
