Italian Gen. Fabio Mini (ret.) insisted that the U.S. government is not really negotiating with Iran, but “is stalling to catch its breath and shift weapons and troops from one theater of operations to another.”
Writing on April 10 in Il Fatto Quotidiano, Mini believes that Swan and Haberman’s report in the New York Times on how the U.S. came to the decision to bomb Iran is plausible. It “is not merely a portrait of a president acting on instinct; it is a family portrait of a power group incapable of distinguishing between the president’s personal interests and those of the entire nation.”