Former Defense Secretary: 'Trump sought to kill senior Iranian officer'

Former US Secretary of Defense Mark Esper claims in his new memoir that former US President Donald Trump sought to kill a senior Iranian military officer, The Guardian reported on Friday.

According to the report, Esper writes in the book that shortly before the 2020 election, Trump’s National Security Adviser, Robert O’Brien, “stunned” the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff by saying the President wanted to eliminate the officer who was operating outside the Islamic Republic.

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