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Leon Panetta, former President Barack Obama‘s defense secretary, defended the Trump administration’s Iran strikes on Sunday, telling CNN‘s Wolf Blitzer that the U.S., “didn’t have any alternative.”
When asked if he thinks President Trump made the right call, Panetta said, “I think we have made very clear that the U.S. was not going to allow Iran to develop a nuclear weapon. I think there was an effort to try to negotiate. The bottom line is that Iran wasn’t interested in negotiating and willing to do anything to stop their [nuclear] enrichment or bomb capability. I think the U.S. didn’t have any alternative but to conduct this type of attack.”
He continued to CNN, “But as always, the question is what is the end game? And that is something I hope the president and his national security team has thought about.”
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Associated Press