Alastair Crooke Says Trump Has Until Jan. 3 To Strike Iran As Netanyahu Calls "Several Times A Day" Asking For War

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Alastair Crooke Says Trump Has Until Jan. 3 To Strike Iran As Netanyahu Calls "Several Times A Day" Asking For War Former British diplomat Alastair Crooke says President Trump has…

Former British diplomat Alastair Crooke says President Trump has until Jan. 3 to restart the war with Iran, and that Benjamin Netanyahu is pressing him to do it "several times a day, every day." Crooke, whose wrote last month about the war's cost, told the Daniel Davis Deep Dive that the nuclear option for Iran's Pickaxe Mountain "may not actually do anything," and that Iran will not negotiate until seven conditions are met.

Host Daniel Davis opened the interview days after what he called "a stinging rebuke" of Republicans at the midterm polls, noting that Trump had met his war council the day before and that a third carrier strike group was about 10 days out. His question to Crooke was whether the election should have ended talk of renewed war. Crooke called the idea "counterintuitive" for Trump, and what followed was a case that the pressure to strike now is coming from the calendar.

"He's only got until the 3rd of January," Crooke said of Trump. "And after the 3rd of January, it's going to be much more difficult for him to start a war because the new Congress will have assembled." Netanyahu's clock is shorter, in his telling: he "came out badly bruised from the elections," and "He rings him up or people close to Trump several times a day, every day, asking for war because Netanyahu sees this as his only salvation." Crooke's reason is that "The only way that he can produce a unity government is to say we're at war." Crooke gave no evidence for the calls.

The gap in between is where Crooke sees the danger. A caretaker Netanyahu, he said, can still act: "Then he can launch a war legally and the IDF, even if they disagree with it and oppose it, will have to comply." A war would also solve his coalition problem, since "he'll immediately call for unity government and he'll probably get one." Crooke noted that Israel's new Knesset assembles Nov. 9 and that Eisenkot plans a vote on an investigation into Oct.

Asked about his main concerns, Crooke went through Trump's…

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