Trump denies top US military general is against war with Iran

President Donald Trump on Monday denied reports from the “Fake News Media” that the top US military general was against going to war with Iran.

Reports from multiple US and Israeli media outlets suggested that Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Dan Caine had cautioned the Trump administration against striking Iran, as the US president has threatened in recent weeks.

A spokesman for the Joint Chiefs emphasized that the chairman’s role is to provide the president, Pentagon chief, and National Security Council with “a range of military options, as well as secondary considerations and associated impacts and risks, to the civilian leaders who make America’s security decisions.”

The official added that the chairman “provides these options confidentially.”

In a post on his Truth Social platform, Trump said Gen. Caine, “like all of us, would like not to see War but, if a decision is made on going against Iran at a Military level, it is his opinion that it will be something easily won.”

Trump went on to cite last summer’s US strikes on Iran’s nuclear program, which was orchestrated and conducted under Caine’s supervision. The US president claimed that everything that has been written about a potential war with Iran “has been written incorrectly, and purposefully so,” without elaborating.

In recent weeks, mainstream American media outlets have reported on imminent and detailed potential US strikes against Iran. Often, reports would conclude that no decision had yet been made. “I am the one that makes the decision, I would rather have a Deal than not but, if we don’t make a Deal, it will be a very bad day for that Country and, very sadly, its people, because they are great and wonderful, and something like this should never have happened to them,” Trump said on Truth Social.

“Razin Caine is a Great Fighter, and represents the Most Powerful Military anywhere in the World.”