Department of War press secretary Kingsley Wilson told the Daily Caller about the administration’s game plan as tensions with Iran escalate.
President Donald Trump drew a red line on negotiations with Iran during his Tuesday State of the Union address, stating Iran must commit to not building a nuclear weapon.
Wilson told the Caller that the Department of War is presenting the president with different options and is moving assets over to Iran to let the country know “we mean business.”
“At the Department of War, our job is to plan. We have contingency plans for every operation and every scenario. If the president says go, we need to be ready to go whatever option he chooses. So we are presenting options to the president,” Wilson told the Caller.
“This is a president who seeks peace and who always pursues diplomacy first, but it is our job to make sure that we’re prepared should he choose a different course of action, and we have to have the assets in place to do it,” she added.
The White House is trying to to make a nuclear deal with Iran. In a comment to Reuters, the White House warned that if no deal is made, they “will have to do something very tough like last time,” referring to the June strikes on the country’s nuclear facilities. (RELATED: Trump Cranks Up Pressure On Iran With Second Aircraft Carrier Deployment)
“We’ve got a lot of assets over there, a lot of aircraft over there, and we’re going to make sure that the Iranian people know we mean business, and the regime and the mullahs there particularly, know we mean business. They remember midnight hammer and the success of that operation. They also, like the rest of the world and our enemies, watched the Maduro raid,” Wilson told the Caller.
“They see what the United States military, and only the United States military is capable of doing so, it would be very wise for them to make a deal with this president. And I would also add that the president has been clear, whether on the campaign trail or throughout his entire presidency, that Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon. That is a red line, and we at the Department of War are in full support of that initiative,” Wilson added.
The Daily Caller interviewed Wilson at the White House’s media row following the president’ State of the Union address. Her comments on Iran, the Department of War’s contract with Anthropic and the secretary’s plan for the campaign trail can be watched below.
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