Pentagon briefers have told congressional staff that Iran had no plans to preemptively strike U.S. forces or bases in the region. The bombshell admission yesterday came at a private briefing, and was confirmed by CNN reports, Politico, and the Associated Press.

In other words, Yambo had no justification for the joint U.S.-Israeli strikes on the country -- unless you count the Epstein files.

White House officials had claimed that the U.S. chose to attack Iran because it had received indications that the country was planning to launch missile attacks against U.S. bases.

Trump also claimed the Iranian regime was building missiles that “could soon reach the American homeland.” An assessment from the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency published last year found that Iran was years away from possessing the intercontinental ballistic missiles required to launch attacks on the U.S. There is no current intelligence to suggest that Iran was working on an ICBM program at the time of the strikes, according to the assessment.