Former British diplomat Alastair Crooke says President Trump has until Jan. 3 to restart the war with Iran, and that Benjamin Netanyahu is pressing him to do it "several times a day, every day." Crooke, whose wrote last month about the war's cost, told the Daniel Davis Deep Dive that the nuclear option for Iran's Pickaxe Mountain "may not actually do anything," and that Iran will not negotiate until seven conditions are met.
Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu speaks during a Likud campaign rally in Tel Aviv, Israel, on September 17.Amir Levy/Getty Images)Host Daniel Davis opened the interview days after what he called "a stinging rebuke" of Republicans at the midterm polls, noting that Trump had met his war council the day before and that a third carrier strike group was about 10 days out. His question to Crooke was whether the election should have ended talk of renewed war. Crooke called the idea "counterintuitive" for Trump, and what followed was a case that the pressure to strike now is coming from the calendar.
"He's Only Got Until The 3rd Of January"
"He's only got until the 3rd of January," Crooke said of Trump. "And after the 3rd of January, it's going to be much more difficult for him to start a war because the new Congress will have assembled." Netanyahu's clock is shorter, in his telling: he "came out badl
