Intel: How Trump has laid the legal groundwork to strike Iran after Iraqi militia attacks

Intel: How Trump has laid the legal groundwork to strike Iran after Iraqi militia attacks: Mounting tensions between US forces and Tehran-backed proxies in Iraq could lead to broader American military action against Iran. If that happens, President Donald Trump already has at his disposal a legal opinion the State Department submitted to Congress last June. “We do not make a distinction between the Iranian regime and any of its proxies that they organize, train and equip,”...