A private phone call included a direct warning to avoid going into Iran. The warning emphasized that experts had long said an Iran incursion would trigger immediate disruption of a key strait. The president was portrayed as repeatedly advised not to proceed, with comparisons made to avoid treating Iran like Venezuela. Additional warnings referenced advice from CIA Iran desk personnel about becoming trapped in a quagmire. The account also claims that ignoring these expert cautions could lead to one of the greatest military defeats in the past century.
"Scarborough revealed Tuesday that he personally warned President Donald Trump against going into Iran in a private phone call. In a scorching commentary on Morning Joe, Scarborough said that the president was repeatedly advised against an Iran incursion. Let me tell you what experts told everybody about Iran don't go! Scarborough said. Don't go into Iran! Because if you go into Iran, they'll cut off the strait immediately! People have been saying it since the early 1980s. You can't do it because they'll cut off this strait. And yet they did it anyway."
"The Morning Joe host then shared with his MS NOW audience that he actually made a personal appeal to the commander in chief. I told him on the phone, Iran is not Venezuela!' Scarborough said. Don't listen to Lindsey Graham! Don't do it! Iran is not Venezuela!' But he thought it was. Experts told him it wasn't. If he had talked to anybody on the Iran desk in the CIA, they would have said, No, this is a nightmare. You will get entangled in a quagmire there. Don't go!'"
"And so, experts sometimes, actually, you need to pick up the phone and call one or two of them, because they will stop you from getting involved in what Bob Kagan, an expert, says could be one of the greatest military defeats in the past century. Watch above, via MS NOW."
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