President Donald Trump abruptly left the G7 last week for urgent issues on Iran and reports are now indicating it was due to Iran telling the U.S. it was going to activate its terrorist proxies on U.S. soil.
The report comes from sources close to NBC News that said an intermediary sent a cable through diplomatic channels that Iran would activate its terror cells in the U.S. if there was a direct U.S. attack on Iran.
That came as Trump was urging Iran to come back to the table to talk about giving up its nuclear weapons aspirations, but after receiving the threat of terrorist attacks on the U.S., Trump left the G7, not due to ceasefire talks but something “much bigger.”
That much bigger ultimately wound up being Saturday night’s 30,000-pound bunker-busting B-2 stealth bomber airstrikes on three Iranian nuclear facilities.
After the threat and departing G7, Trump issued his famed “unconditional surrender” and direct warning to Iran Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, saying the U.S. had him in their sights.
The U.S. has long called Iran the globe’s largest state sponsor of terror, but the reports of the direct threat to activate terrorist cells in the U.S. is a new level of admission of direct tentacles of terrorism around the world.
Without mentioning the NBC report, retired U.S. Marine Corps Lt. Gen. Jack Bergman, a member of the House Armed Services Committee and chair of the Intelligence and Special Operations Subcommittee, told Newsmax there was a classified “threat assessment” shared with some congressional GOP leaders that became the predicate for authorizing Trump’s strike on Iranian nuclear facilities Saturday night.
“So my colleagues who talk about what we should have done probably haven’t been in the fight when there’s lives on the line and threat assessment having been done at the local level to secure the mission,” Bergman told Newsmax’s “Wake Up America.”
“Because, they did have authority to go ahead and do this because we don’t want to have another 9/11 happen. That happened. That caught us by surprise. You should never be caught by surprise twice in the same regime.”
As for Democrats like Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., jumping on the “unconstitutional” strike talk to expand to impeachment, do not give the blowhards any “oxygen” for wasted breathe, Bergman concluded.
“Well, as my mother would have said, you got to consider the source,” he said. “So if the source of calling for impeachment has no credibility, then you got to just kind of move on.
“So I’ll just leave it at that, because we could dwell on what others say all the time, having no knowledge of threat assessment, having no knowledge of what it means to put together a national security posture, a strategy, and then execution of the strategy as necessary.”
