Trump White House Lies to Support Argument Iran War Was Inevitable

March 4—The Trump White House, seeking Congressional backing to defeat a War Powers resolution that could block its war against Iran, has created a lying narrative that says Iran's actions caused the war to begin Feb. 28, to protect the security of American forces and our allies, including Israel, several sources report.

Central to this lie is the statement that no deal on its nuclear program was possible, as Iran not only rejected the idea that it halt uranium enrichment, but that it would refuse to give up its stockpile of already enriched uranium that could easily be upgraded to weapons grade. This statement is then used to show that Iran wanted the capability to move in a short time to develop a nuclear weapon, if strategic circumstances demanded.

Claims About Missiles, Enrichment, and Hostility Toward the West

Also central to the lying narrative was that Iran was in the process of developing missiles that could strike the United States and easily be armed with a nuclear warhead, a claim which was disputed by American intelligence. Nor was Iran willing at this time or any time to discuss limits on its ballistic missile program, which Israel regarded as an existential threat.

Further, the narrative states that Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran's Supreme Leader, remained committed to the ultimate destruction of both the United States and Israel, and that no workable deal was possible as long as the 86-year-old leader remained in power. Khamenei was murdered along with other Iranian leaders in the first hours of the attack on Iran by Israel Feb. 28.

Finally, there is a confusing part of the narrative, which has been part of Congressional briefings by the Administration this week, that says that the U.S. was forced to go into the war, since Israel was committed to strike Iran, so that the combined attack would better limit Iran's ability to respond. Even if Israel attacked alone, Iran, the narrative says, would have struck U.S. assets in the region, as well as those of its allies in the Gulf States.

Sources: Negotiators Believed a Deal Was Within Reach

Contrary to this narrative, sources, including those close to the White House, report the following is true:

At the conclusion of negotiations with Iran in Geneva Feb. 27, Special Envoy Steve Witkoff reported that he believed that a deal with Iran was possible, and even likely, that would give Trump most all of what he asked for: Iran would renounce for all time the development of a nuclear weapon, would agree to a moratorium on uranium enrichment while terms of a longer ban and/or reduction could be worked out; would agree to a vigorous inspection regimen, and in exchange for sanctions relief and release of held Iranian assets, would open up Iran to American investments and give favorable status to U.S. companies seeking Iranian business. Crucially, Witkoff believed that the Ayatollah, who was likely to soon be replaced, would accept the deal.

Netanyahu and Christian Zionists Urged Trump Toward War

There were two roadblocks to this settlement:

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin "Bibi" Netanyahu, who told Trump that he would accept no deal with Iran and the United States and was instead committed to strike Iran at his earliest opportunity, seeking regime change by killing the Ayatollah and his allies in the strike. Bibi told the White House he would strike Iran before it had a chance to make a "false deal" with the U.S. Bibi viewed the Iranian regime as pure evil, with Khamenei the devil, whose evil must be eliminated.

The other roadblock to a deal were the cult of Christian Zionists who supported this view of Iran, and who were clustered around the President, including Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller, Secretary of War Pete Hegseth and others. They believed that a deal would "strengthen the devil," a source reported, "and make regime change impossible." They urged Trump to become Iran's "liberator" and go to war to free the Iranian people. Along with Treasury Secretary Bessant, these cultists saw a war with Iran as demonstrating to the world the Trumpian world view of America going against evil with force, and a lesson to those in the global south who might want to defy America.

Trump reportedly worried about what effect a war on Iran would have with his relations with Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping, who he will meet in China in April. Cultist and Secretary of State Marco Rubio reportedly said that they would complain publicly but they would do nothing to block future relations with Trump, as long as the war "had an end to it."

"We need to end this quickly," Trump is reported to have said, "and we must win or we will hear from the American people. As long as I win," Trump is reported to have said, "it will be okay."

Witkoff Reverses Course Publicly; Diplomats Call His Claims False

So, the dogs of war were unleashed against Iran. But there was a disturbing narrative circulating, that the war was unnecessary, that Iran was willing to capitulate to Trump without war. Reports were leaked by The New York Times that, even after the fighting started, and Khamenei had been killed, that Iran wanted to talk.

And as Congress was briefed, its members said that the Administration had not really made the case that Iran represented the kind of threat that required this action. To make the case, Trump asked Witkoff to appear March 2 on Fox News's Sean Hannity show. The Envoy now stated that Iran was never really serious about making a deal, and they had in fact bragged several times that they could make up to 11 bombs from the near weapons-grade uranium they already had, and that they would never give up the ability to do that.

Following these comments, Rubio told the press and Congress that "we are dealing with evil here. Real evil. The Iranian leaders are lunatics."

But Arab diplomats familiar with the negotiations told whoever would listen that Witkoff’s new account was simply not true. Witkoff lied when he claimed that Iranian negotiators bragged about having enough material to build 11 nuclear bombs, according to a diplomat with direct knowledge of how conversations unfolded, a new report claimed.

A Persian Gulf diplomat told MS Now that Iranian officials told Witkoff that the country was willing to give up enriched uranium as part of an agreement. They also said they enriched the uranium after President Donald Trump abandoned the nuclear deal that his predecessor, Barack Obama, had signed.

"He was explaining that all of this material can all go away should we have a deal and Iran can be relieved from sanctions," the diplomat said.

White House spokeswoman Anna Kelly, however, dismissed the claims. "Only MSDNC would allow themselves to be used and abused by the evil Iranian regime to push false, anti-American propaganda in order to attack President Trump," she said.

Sources: Administration ‘Lied to Start This War’

The Trump administration has lied to start this war, said a source with decades of experience in the region. "Now it is committing further lies to sustain their arguments. If the President has authorized such actions—lying to Congress and the American people—then he has committed an impeachable offense. The people who are pushing this war, whose full consequences are yet to be known, are seeking to destroy this Administration and the United States itself. This will become more obvious, as events unfold and especially if the U.S. can be induced to put boots on the ground, to defend Iranians set up by Israeli agents from slaughter at the hands of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps, the power of its several million trained troops remains mostly intact. This war is the revenge of the Epstein class."