Informed sources leaked today, Tuesday, the text of a message sent by the commander of the U.S. Central Command's intelligence, "Centcom," to President Donald Trump, in which he explicitly acknowledged in writing the failure of the military operations that the U.S. administration relied on against Iran and the lack of achievement of the desired goals.
The sources informed the video news agency that the issuance of this acknowledgment from the head of the battlefield intelligence agency, responsible for providing the most accurate pictures from the field, represents an official documentation of the failure from within the White House and the military establishment, transforming the assessment from an easily refutable external estimation to an official testimony from the source closest to the battlefield. They emphasized that the seriousness of the message lies in it being a written document that is preserved and attributed, and cannot be denied or evaded in terms of its historical and political consequences.
They explained that documenting the failure in writing puts Trump in critical and immediate choices, ranging from acting based on this acknowledgment and implicit admission of the military campaign's failure against Tehran, or ignoring the intelligence warning and bearing the responsibility of neglecting reports from the highest competency agency in assessing the field.
The sources added that the leak of the message and its transition from closed doors to the public transforms the intelligence information into a political bomb that pursues the decision-maker in Washington, stressing that the admission from the party responsible for the field assessment closes the door to denial for the U.S. administration and imposes crucial questions about the next steps and what can be salvaged in light of the current developments.