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WASHINGTON: General Mark Milley, Chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, has strongly rejected a claim made by former President Donald Trump and his White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows that he had recommended an American military attack on Iran.
Rilley told CNN on Wednesday that he never recommended a military attack on Iran during the Trump administration, pushing back on the claims.
“I can assure you that not one time have I ever recommended attacking Iran,” the top military official said. Milley told CNN he did not know the specific document Trump was referring to. It had been previously reported that it was not authored by Milley.
“I don’t know the document they’re talking about. I’ve never seen – no one’s presented me with what it is they’re talking about. So, I really still can’t comment on it,” Milley said.
“But I can assure you that, you know, a military attack on Iran is a very, very serious undertaking. We have capabilities. We have plans – that’s not particularly unusual – to comment on that. But I am not going to go further and discuss any of the details, he said referring to Trumps claims. ”
Trump was reportedly captured on audio tape talking about the plan with biographers for Meadows way back in July 2021 at his Bedminster, New Jersey, resort, acknowledging he had not declassified the document.
“As president, I could have declassified, but now I can’t,” Trump says of the document, according to the transcript of the tape .
Milley, an Army general who is retiring on September 30 as the nation’s top military officer, was Trump’s chairman of the Joint Chiefs during the final 16 months of his time in office.
He had a huge role in events of Trump’s presidency, including the response to the Black Lives Matter protests in 2020 and actions he took after January 6, 2001, when he was concerned that the former President could go “rogue”, media reports said. (IANS)
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