Nuclear Tension

So get a load of this. 

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was on TV, giving a speech about the Iran nuclear deal and how he had info about Iran’s secret agenda to build a nuclear bomb. 

Intelligence and security folk here in the United States and around the world took a look at what Netanyahu was selling and agreed, yep, this is some serious shit going down with Iran and their efforts to build a nuclear bomb.  Why, these intelligence and security folk here in the United States and around the world thought the same thing when this information that Netanyahu was giving the hard sell was first discovered  about 15 years ago.  Netanyahu’s speech, full of (dare I say it?) fire and fury over Iran’s nuclear malfeasance was based on outdated information. It was in fact this information of Iran’s nuclear malfeasance that added to the urgency to head off Iran’s nuclear weapons program with the deal that the United States and other countries entered into with Iran to get them to stop working on nuclear weapons.

It is a deal that by all accounts is working. Under constant scrutiny by on site inspectors as well as the prying eyes of intelligence and security folk here in the United States and around the world, Iran is not building a nuclear bomb.

So why, pray tell, was Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on TV, giving a speech to stir things up with out of date info on Iran’s secret agenda to build a nuclear bomb? 

Note that Netanyahu’s speech was presented in English AND with giant visual aids. The consensus is that the audience for Netanyahu’s speech was just ONE person: Li’l Donnie Trump.

Did it work? Let's find out.

And now...This!

In the statement issued under the name of White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders, the Trump administration wrote that “Iran has a robust, clandestine nuclear weapons program that it has tried and failed to hide from the world and from its own people.” 
Note the present tense: HAS, not HAD. 
Of course, it looks like Trump’s White House was pushing a false narrative to support Trump’s biased and unfounded animosity. 

Until they got caught.

Sanders told reporters on Tuesday, “The typo that you referenced was noticed, immediately corrected and we are focused on moving forward on the safety and security of our country.”

The statement was later amended online to switch to the past tense, that “Iran had a robust, clandestine nuclear weapons program.” On the White House website, the statement is published without a correction or other acknowledgment of the error, and a corrected email was not sent to reporters.