{"id":44400,"date":"2026-03-01T22:57:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T03:57:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=44400"},"modified":"2026-03-01T22:57:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T03:57:11","slug":"u-s-intel-did-not-suggest-a-preemptive-strike-from-iran-before-u-s-israeli-attack-ap-sources-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=44400","title":{"rendered":"U.S. intel did not suggest a preemptive strike from Iran before U.S.-Israeli attack, AP sources say"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thestar.com\/news\/world\/united-states\/us-intel-did-not-suggest-a-preemptive-strike-from-iran-before-us-israeli-attack-ap\/article_201cbe38-6d4d-55d0-b484-92b40031ec1d.html\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/69a4f1023a638.image_.jpg\" alt=\"\" style=\"width:189px;height:auto\"\/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>Trump administration officials, including Rubio and Hegseth, are expected to brief Congress on the military operation against Iran on Tuesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thestar.com\/news\/world\/united-states\/u-s-intel-did-not-suggest-a-preemptive-strike-from-iran-before-u-s-\/article_201cbe38-6d4d-55d0-b484-92b40031ec1d.html\">U.S. intel did not suggest a preemptive strike from Iran before U.S.-Israeli attack, AP sources say<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>fta: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>&#8220;The information conveyed to the congressional staff contrasts with the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/iran-us-trump-address-f662a4f3378535d81197be699fb35a3e\">message from President Donald Trump<\/a>. \u201cOur objective is to defend the American people by eliminating imminent threats from the Iranian regime. A vicious group of very hard, terrible people,\u201d he said in a video message after launching strikes on Iran.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trump administration officials, including Rubio and Hegseth, are expected to brief Congress&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[282],"tags":[364,310,1102,57,56],"class_list":["post-44400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article","tag-iran","tag-isreal","tag-tfg","tag-usa","tag-war","wpcat-282-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44400","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44400"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44400\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44403,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44400\/revisions\/44403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}