Satellite images showed an emptying out of U.S. military aircrafts from Diego Garcia, a joint U.K.-U.S. military base in the Indian Ocean that served a key role in U.S. signaling to Tehran before Operation Midnight Hammer, when the United States struck three Iranian nuclear facilities.  General Joseph Votel, member of CERL’s Executive Board, told Newsweek Iran still poses a national security threat to the United States and will continue to steer military strategy.

General Joseph L. Votel, U.S. Army (Ret.), is the former Commander of the U.S. Central Command. He is a Distinguished Military Fellow at the Middle East Institute and a member of the CERL Executive Board. Read his bio here. 

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