Top headline: The Bulwark 3/12/2026
Bottom headline: Daily Beast, 3/13/2026
Will Neal report:
Donald Trump’s own intelligence officials say they definitely warned him about the consequences of attacking Iran, even as the president claims “nobody” could have seen it coming.
“They weren’t supposed to go after all these other countries in the Middle East,” Trump told reporters Monday of his war against the Islamic Republic. “Those missiles were set to go after them. So they hit Qatar, Saudi Arabia, UAE, Bahrain, Kuwait.”
“Nobody expected that. We were shocked!” he added. “Nobody, nobody, no, no, no. The greatest experts, nobody thought they were going to hit.”
But, in fact, quite a number of people appear to have thought that. A Trump official and two other sources with knowledge of pre-strike U.S. intelligence assessments told Reuters later on Monday that Iranian retaliation against military assets and allied targets in the region was not “a guarantee, but it certainly was on the list of potential outcomes.”
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