{"id":17917,"date":"2019-05-14T21:16:29","date_gmt":"2019-05-14T21:16:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=17917"},"modified":"2019-05-14T21:16:29","modified_gmt":"2019-05-14T21:16:29","slug":"in-classical-double-speak-trump-says-no-plan-to-send-120000-troops-to-iran-but-will-send-more-if","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=17917","title":{"rendered":"In classical double-speak, Trump says no plan to send 120,000 troops to Iran, but will send more if&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"pusher\" class=\"off-canvas-wrap closed\" data-offcanvas=\"\">\n<div id=\"wrapper\" class=\"container inner-wrap\">\n<div id=\"outer_wrapper\" class=\"outer_wrapper\">\n<header id=\"main-header\">\n<div class=\"top-menu\n\t\t sticky-scroll-up\t\t contain-to-grid\t\t\t show-for-small-only\"><\/p>\n<nav class=\"top-bar\" data-topbar=\"\" data-sticky_height=\"0\" data-distance=\"245\" data-options=\"sticky_on: small; back_text: Back\">U.S. President Donald Trump dismissed as \u201cfake news\u201d a report in The New York Times that said the White House is reviewing plans to possibly deploy up to 120,000 troops to the Middle East should Iran attack U.S. forces or accelerate work on nuclear weapons.<br \/>\n<\/nav>\n<\/div>\n<\/header>\n<div id=\"inner_wrapper\" class=\"inner_wrapper hide-on-mobile-menu \">\n<div class=\"row full-width\">\n<div class=\"inner_content\">\n<div class=\"row has-sidebar\">\n<div class=\"post-124102 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-news tag-donald-trump tag-troops\">\n<div class=\"row vc_row in-container\">\n<div class=\"medium-8 column left\">\n<article id=\"post-124102\" data-postid=\"124102\" data-guid=\"https:\/\/www.nan.ng\/?p=124102\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.nan.ng\/news\/no-plans-to-send-120000-troops-to-counter-iran-threat-trump\/\">\n<div class=\"row collapse article-content-wrap\">\n<div class=\"small-12 medium-9 right column\">\n<div class=\"article-content\">\n<div class=\"post-body  xt-post-content\">\n\u201cI think it\u2019s fake news, OK? Now, would I do that? Absolutely. But we have not planned for that,\u201d Trump told reporters on May 14 on the White House lawn.<br \/>\n\u201cHopefully, we\u2019re not going to have to plan for that. And if we did that, we\u2019d send a hell of a lot more troops than that,\u201d he added.<br \/>\nCiting anonymous administration officials,The New York Times said on May 13 that acting Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan presented the plans at a meeting of Trump\u2019s top security aides last week.<br \/>\nSeveral plans were detailed and \u201cthe uppermost option called for deploying 120,000 troops, which would take weeks or months to complete,\u201d according to The New York Times.<br \/>\nThe report said the plans do not call for a land invasion of Iran.<br \/>\nCommenting on the report, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said at a joint news conference on May 14 with visiting U.S. State Secretary Mike Pompeo in the Black Sea resort of Sochi that he hoped it was \u201cjust baseless rumors.\u201d<br \/>\nAmid growing concerns of a conflict between the United States and Iran, U.S. officials have told their European allies that its recent military buildup in the Persian Gulf region is a \u201cdefensive\u201d move being made in response to multiple threats coming out of Iran.<br \/>\nLast week, Washington announced the deployment of an aircraft carrier battle group and a bomber task force to the Persian Gulf to counter what U.S. officials called \u201cclear indications\u201d of threats from Iran to U.S. interests or its allies in the region.<br \/>\nOn May 14, Brian Hook, the U.S. special representative for Iran, told RFE\/RL that Pompeo delivered that message to European leaders in Brussels on May 13 \u2014 adding that Washington is \u201cjust trying to restore deterrence.<br \/>\n\u201cWe\u2019re not spoiling for a fight,\u201d Hook told RFE\/RL.<br \/>\nPompeo, speaking alongside Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov in Sochi on May 14, said that \u201c\u2018we fundamentally do not see a war with Iran.\u201d<br \/>\nBritish Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt on May 13 said before meeting with Pompeo in Brussels that Britain, France, and Germany are \u201cvery worried about the risk of a conflict happening by accident with an escalation that is unintended really on either side.\u201d<br \/>\nTehran, meanwhile, said Washington was engaging in \u201cpsychological warfare.\u201d<br \/>\nIt also announced it was suspending some of its commitments under the 2015 nuclear agreement with world powers, under which Iran agreed to restrict its nuclear program in exchange for sanctions relief.<br \/>\nThe United States a year ago withdrew from the deal and has since imposed increasingly strict sanctions on Tehran.<br \/>\nIn pulling out of the accord, Trump said the terms were not tough enough to prevent Iran from developing nuclear weapons and did not address Iran\u2019s missile program or Tehran\u2019s alleged support for militants in the region.<br \/>\nIran denies it supports insurgent activity and has said its nuclear program is strictly for civilian energy purposes.\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. President Donald Trump dismissed as \u201cfake news\u201d a report in The New York Times that said the White House is reviewing plans to possibly deploy up to 120,000 troops to the Middle East should Iran attack U.S. forces or accelerate work on nuclear weapons. \u201cI think it\u2019s fake news, OK? Now, would I do [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":2329,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17917","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17917"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17917\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}