John Kiriakou

The intelligence that they get on the day-to-day operation of the Iranian government, on the policies of the Iranian government, largely come from Iranian Jews who live in the West,

or from the Mujahideen-e-Khalq, the MEK, which until the Obama administration was a terrorist group listed on the State Department's list of international terrorist groups, which had murdered an American ambassador in Tehran in the 70s and attempted to murder an American general in the 70s.

But now we're friends with them because they hate the Iranians and they're taking Israeli funding.

Well, the Mujahideen-e-Khalq has a vested interest in the United States going to war in Iran because they want to lead Iran.

And so, you know, we got ourselves into this with bad intelligence and bad policy and no exit strategy.

One final point.

The president, it was my experience at the CIA that the people who most wanted to stay out of war,

were the members of the Joint Chiefs of Staff at the Pentagon.

Those people who have seen war are the least likely to want to go fight it again.

And so what President Trump did over the last year was he fired all the generals

on the Joint Chiefs of Staff and replaced them with his own hand-picked people who were perfectly happy to accept Israeli intelligence and go to war in Iran.

I mean, what's his way out?

I'm going to give you two answers.

My own personal answer is, having watched President Trump all these years, I think that we're going to wake up one morning and we're going to see a posting on Truth Social in which he just announces that we won.

The war's over.

We won.

I'm bringing the troops home.

We're going to have a big military parade on Constitution Avenue.

Congratulations to our victorious heroes in the military.

Thank you for your attention to this matter, Donald J. Trump, President of the United States.