Trump official to The Grayzone: CIA’s Ratcliffe acts as ‘Mossad stenographer’ on Iran

from Grayzone

A Trump official tells The Grayzone that Israel’s Mossad is using CIA Director John Ratcliffe and US CENTCOM’s Gen. Michael Kurilla to influence Trump with cooked intelligence on Iran’s nuclear program. Inside the White House, dissenters have been isolated, setting the stage for a regime change war that could cost American lives.

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An official in the administration of President Donald Trump has told The Grayzone that CIA Director John Ratcliffe and US CENTCOM Commander Gen. Michael Kurilla have become vehicles for Israel’s Mossad and military as they seek to manipulate the US into attacking Iran. The Trump official referred to Ratcliffe as “Mossad’s stenographer.”

According to the official, Ratcliffe and Kurilla have pressured Trump to join Israel’s war more directly by regurgitating overblown briefings they received from the Israeli military and Mossad director David Barnea – but without informing the president that the intelligence was derived from a foreign third party.

During the Trump administration’s meetings with Israeli intelligence officials including Barnea, the official said the Israelis have demonstrated a single-minded focus on regime change, clamoring for authorization to assassinate Iran’s leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. The Israeli officials have emphasized that the moment to take out Khamenei is now.

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Heart of Darkness: Gen. Kurilla and the Birthpangs of the New Middle East

Gen. Kurilla... Col. Walter E. Kurtz... Gen. Smedley Butler... too much or right on the money? Time will tell.

Is Trump Attack on Iran Hinging on Looming Retirement of This Hawkish Pro-Israel US General?

from Common Dreams (H/T Searching for Aunt BB)

Did the Israelis strike Iran when it did because Michael Kurilla is still commander of U.S. Central Command and a “window” for a prospective joint operation with the U.S. might be closing?

Some are speculating that because Kurilla is expected to retire from the military this summer that the Israelis saw their chance. The Army general, 59, has been widely reported to be on one side of a split in the Pentagon over whether the U.S. should support and even be part of Israeli strikes against Iran’s nuclear program.

In April, Israel news outlet Ynet coined him as “The U.S. general Israel doesn’t want to strike Iran without.”

“Israeli defense analysts say the window for a successful attack on Iran’s nuclear program is rapidly closing,” wrote Alon Strimling on April 19. “That window could narrow dramatically once Kurilla steps down, as his successor’s stance remains unclear.”...

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Trying to Make Sense of the Latest Iran Attack Narrative Wars: Success or Not? That is the Question (video)

Trying to Make Sense of the Latest Iran Attack Narrative Wars: Success or Not? That is the Question https://nomadiceveryman.blogspot.com/2025/06/trying-to-make-sense-of-latest-iran.html

Trying to Make Sense of the Latest Iran Attack Narrative Wars: Success or Not? That is the Question

 by Scott Creighton 

We are witnessing a narrative war in the Trump administration. Some say the attack on Iran's facilities was successful. Others (DIA and CENTCOM) say it was not and Iran still poses a threat to the region and of course, to Glorious Israel. 

Remember... it was Netanyahu who said he was told by CENTCOM that the Iranians were weeks away from being able to make a nuclear weapon and it was that assessment which prompted him to attack Iran before the agreement with Trump could be signed.

'The head of U.S. Central Command, Gen. Michael Kurilla, testified in mid-June that if Iran were to decide to sprint to a nuclear weapon, it would be able to produce enough weapons-grade material for a simple nuclear weapon in one week and could make enough for 10 nuclear weapons in three weeks' CBS

It was CENTCOM that then carried out Trump's illegal attacks on Iranian nuclear facilities.

'Tampa was at the heart of the secret bombing campaign that hit three Iranian nuclear facilities.

Home to MacDill Air Force base and U.S. Central Command, CentCom, military officials in Tampa directed a precision strike under President Donald Trump’s orders to destroy or degrade Iran’s nuclear program" Tampa Bay Times

And now it's CENTCOM that is at the heart of the story about Iran's nuclear facilities were barely damaged... thus leaving them as a remaining 'existential threat' to Israel.