How Trump’s attack on Iran risks dragging US into Middle East ‘quagmire’

US president who pledged to end America’s forever wars has started another Middle East conflict with no easy off-ramps

‘Nobody else is responsible’: Trump to blame for Iran crisis, ex-CIA chief says

Leon Panetta calls president ‘naive’ over strait of Hormuz closure and says ‘the chickens are coming home to roost’ Donald Trump is stuck between “a rock and a hard place” after three weeks of war in Iran and “sending a message of weakness” to the world, Leon Panetta, a former US defence secretary and Central Intelligence Agency director, has told the Guardian. Panetta, who served in the Bill Clinton and Barack Obama administrations, recalled that national security officials were always keenl...

By David Smith in Washington

CIA Ex Chief Who Hunted Bin Laden Has A Hormuz Advice For Trump

Leon Panetta, who ran the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and the Pentagon under former president Barack Obama, has singled out US President Donald Trump as the only man responsible for the current situation