{"id":5931,"date":"2019-05-22T05:36:18","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T05:36:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deshmediabd.info\/?p=5931"},"modified":"2019-05-22T05:36:18","modified_gmt":"2019-05-22T05:36:18","slug":"us-stance-on-iran-deterrence-not-about-war-pentagon-chief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deshnews24.info\/?p=5931","title":{"rendered":"US stance on Iran \u2018deterrence, not about war\u2019: Pentagon chief"},"content":{"rendered":"

The US defense chief said President Donald Trump\u2019s administration was seeking to deter Iran but not start a war, after he briefed members of Congress.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is about deterrence, not about war. We are not about going to war,\u201d Acting Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan told reporters after exiting the closed-door meeting with Secretary of State Mike Pompeo.<\/p>\n

Shanahan credited robust US moves in recent weeks, which included the deployment of an aircraft carrier strike group, with thwarting Iranian threats.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have deterred attacks based on reposturing of assets, deterred attacks against American forces,\u201d Shanahan said.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur biggest focus at this point is to prevent Iranian miscalculation. We do not want the situation to escalate,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Pompeo said that he and Shanahan placed Iranian actions within the context of \u201c40 years of terrorist activity,\u201d since the 1979 Islamic revolution replaced the pro-Western shah with a staunchly anti-US clerical regime.<\/p>\n

The briefing did not satisfy many of the Democrats, who say that the heightened tensions are the results of President Donald Trump administration\u2019s aggressive stance and shunning of diplomacy.<\/p>\n

\u201cI worry very much that, intentionally or unintentionally, we can create a situation in which a war will take place,\u201d Senator Bernie Sanders, an independent running for the Democratic presidential nomination, told reporters.<\/p>\n

Saying that the Iraq and Vietnam wars were based on lies by previous administrations, Sanders said: \u201cI believe that a war with Iran would be an absolute disaster, far worse than the war with Iraq.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Acting U.S. Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan, left, and U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo speak to reporters after briefing senators on Iran in Washington, U.S., May 21, 2019. REUTERS\/James Lawler Duggan<\/p><\/div>BSS\/AFP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The US defense chief said President Donald Trump\u2019s administration was seeking to deter Iran but not start a war, after he briefed members of Congress. \u201cThis is about deterrence, not about war. We are not about going to war,\u201d Acting Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan told reporters after exiting the closed-door meeting with Secretary of State […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-4","category-14"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deshnews24.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5931","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deshnews24.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deshnews24.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deshnews24.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deshnews24.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5931"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/deshnews24.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5931\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5933,"href":"https:\/\/deshnews24.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5931\/revisions\/5933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deshnews24.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deshnews24.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deshnews24.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}