A lot of people here apparently believe -- mistakenly -- that information from "U.S. intelligence" is intended to guide decisions by U.S. presidents. It's not. It's aimed at driving propaganda efforts to dupe low-information voters into supporting foreign/military policy decisions that may not be in America's best interest.
As such, I'd say the whole purpose of citing "U.S. intelligence information about an imminent attack on U.S. interests by Iran" is to provide public justification for something that President Trump wanted to do anyway. Maybe it was a good idea, and maybe it wasn't ... but it sure as hell wasn't done because of any "imminent attack" on anything.
Never trust your government.
RE: Maybe it was a good idea, and maybe it wasn’t ... but it sure as hell wasn’t done because of any “imminent attack” on anything.
So, your reasoning sounds like this — our military intelligence LIES like every other government bureaucracy does and the recent attacks on our embassy is just a one time thing that will not be repeated anyway.