Posted on 06/23/2019 7:10:04 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
FULL TITLE: Iran likely at 'inflection point,' launching attacks to change 'status quo,' Defense Intelligence Agency director tells Fox News
EXCLUSIVE – Iran is likely at "an inflection point," and the recent attacks on tankers and the downing of a U.S. surveillance drone appear to be part of an effort to change "the status quo," the director of the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) told Fox News exclusively.
"I'd say that they're probably at an inflection point right now," the director, Lt. Gen. Robert Ashley Jr., explained in his first national TV interview as the leader of the nearly 17-thousand strong agency. Director Ashley said, based on their activity over the last several years, the Iranians would probably say they were in a "favorable" position with their influence over the Iraqi government and the likelihood their longtime regional ally -- Syrian President Bashar al-Assad -- will remain in power.
But, Director Ashley -- whose agency's mission is to understand foreign militaries and the operational environment -- said the United States' withdrawal from the Iran deal and subsequent sanctions made a major impact on the regime. Later this year, DIA expects to release an unclassified military study on Iran, which follows similar reports on China and Russia.
"As you look at the developments of JCPOA (the Iran deal), the lack of an economic outcome for them, and then, really, the sanctions which have put a lot of pressure on the Iranian government... I think this uptick that you’ve seen is a reflection of them trying to kind of change the status quo in the path that they’re on," Ashley said.
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I would like to see the mullahs sent to visit allah.
I’d say this observation was a no-brainer.
No doubt the sanctions are hurting the leadership by their loss of support among their people.
I like to think it isn’t really the people of Iran we have a beef with; it’s their leadership. Particularly the Mullahs.
Just saw the irony. They have a problem with a ‘Mullah’ and we have a problem with a ‘Mueller’.
Good one..!
Maybe time for some air drops of those single shot 45 Cal guns? that we got into France during German occupation.
What good are “experts”?
I agree with Stalin: what you need is a spy at the leader’s right hand, to tell you exactly what he is planning to do.
Experts can be wrong...
Seemed like maybe an interesting article, but I got tired of reading the same thing over, and over, and over.
Bye.
Inflection point?
The Mullahs who maintain Iran as a defacto totalitarian theocracy are feeling the economic heat....the Iranian people are ready to overthrow the Mullahs!
Allahwahoo Whackbar!
Can we believe anything they say?
Serious question.
I wish one day that they (Mullahtards) finally get their ass kicked!
It just can't happen before President Trump is re-elected.
Are these the same people that have been telling us Iran is “6 Months” away from making a nuclear weapon for the last 20+ years or so?
Jus ‘sayin. I mean I can’t be the only one who noticed this. I figured they’d have bought ‘em by now. Recall when the Soviet Union broke up, there was a period of time afterwards where pretfy much everything was for sale at the right price. And a lot of “stuff” went “missing”.
If Iran gets attacked then watch North Korea, they are both linked.
Iran is at a saddle point with President Trump holding the whip hand.
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