John Bolton’s National Security Council sought military options to strike Iran: Report
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The National Security Council sought options for a military strike against Iran last year following a mortar attack near the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad by a Shiite militia group aligned with Tehran, according to a report published early Sunday morning.
Three mortars landed in an abandoned lot in the Iraqi capital’s Green Zone in September. They resulted in no casualties, but it was enough to prompt national security adviser John Bolton to request from the Pentagon a plan to take action against Iran, as well as Syria and Iraq, sources told the Wall Street Journal.
The request related to Iran alarmed officials in both the State Department and the Pentagon. “It definitely rattled people,” a former senior U.S. administration official told the outlet. “People were shocked. It was mind-boggling how cavalier they were about hitting Iran.”
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