Government officials under the Trump administration admitted in a closed-door briefing to congressional staff that there was no intelligence indicating Iran had planned to strike U.S. troops stationed in the Middle East first. The White House previously said Pentagon officials briefed bipartisan members of the Senate and House Committees on National Security for more than 90 minutes. Sources said the briefing emphasized that Iran's ballistic missiles and regional proxy forces posed an "imminent threat" to U.S. interests, but there was no intelligence indicating that Tehran would strike U.S. forces first, which contrasts with the government's previous claims that Trump partly decided to take military action due to concerns that Iran might launch a preemptive strike. Democrats criticized this as a "selective war" and questioned Trump's decision to abandon what was still considered a promising peace talk under Oman's mediation. Reuters also reported that Trump's claims about Iran soon acquiring the ability to strike the U.S. with ballistic missiles lacked evidence.
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