According to the Wall Street Journal2, he asked the Pentagon last September for plans to launch military strikes against Iran. These included the intrusion of US aircraft into Iranian airspace, and air strikes against military sites in the Islamic Republic. Iran would not hesitate to hit the United States where it can hurt, even if it would certainly suffer. In the logic that prevails today in the American administration, if there was no Iran, why would the Gulf States need the protection of the United States? From 2014 to 2017, he was deputy assistant to President Barack Obama and national security advisor to Vice President Joe Biden.

Source: Wall Street Journal May 19, 2019 06:56 UTC