What is Bolton up to in Iran?? Even war hawk Lindsey Graham is puzzled

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“Removing personnel from embassies and consulates is clearly a serious move by the State Department; they feel the threat,” Graham told reporters. “I would urge the State Department and DoD to come down here and explain to us what’s going on, because I have no idea what the threat stream is beyond what I read in the paper. And I think there are a lot of people in my shoes who are going to support standing up to Iran but they need to understand what the threat is.”

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British major general Chris Ghika, who is deputy commander of the coalition operations against ISIS, publicly rebuked the Trump administration’s assertion that there is an increased threat to U.S. forces in the Middle East.

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“I am not going to go into the detail of it, but there are a substantial number of militia groups in Iraq and Syria and we don’t see an increased threat from many of them at this stage,” he told reporters Tuesday.

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