The United States started ramping up our military presence in the Persian Gulf and across the Middle East around the end of last month. Now, we may know one of the factors that led to this decision: A call by a top Iranian official for the various militia groups under their control to “prepare for proxy war” against the United States and our allies.

According to The Guardian:

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All of this information is almost certainly leaked as part of an effort to convince our European allies to believe the treat assessment Secretary of State Mike Pompeo laid out before them earlier this week. It was received with skepticism initially, though the British have adopted our cautious tone today after initially balking.

As we’ve been noting from the beginning, the intelligence very likely came from Iranian defector Ali Nasiri, who left his high-level post in Iranian intelligence last month to defect to the United States with a cache of military plans. This theory jibe with every action we’ve seen so far, including the leaked intelligence that should make EU nations rethink their position of skepticism.

As long as the United Nations in general and the EU in particular continues to turn a blind eye to Iran’s proxy aggressions, they will work to undermine peace in the Middle East and around the world. There’s skin in the game for European nations; they don’t want to be proven wrong about their trust in Iran’s desire for peace and they definitely don’t want the Trump administration to be right, but they must set aside their bias and see the truth. World War III is just around the corner if they don’t stand up for the truth instead of their political agenda.

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“We share the same assessment of the heightened threat posed by Iran. As always we work closely with the USA.” – British Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt

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Iran loves to be aggressive but hates getting their hands dirty. That’s why the employ militias. It’s why the sponsor terrorism. They avoid accountability by keeping their distance from direct conflict. This time, their involvement is clear.

Senior Palestinian leader Jibril Rajoub is a pragmatic terrorist leader. He has called for violence against Israel, but wants it focused on settlers and military. Attacking Tel Aviv, he has said, would not help them continue to gain international support.

It’s for this reason and one other that Rajoub’s current medical treatments are so ironic. To receive them properly, he’s gone to Tel Aviv.

The other irony is that Palestinians are not allowed to receive medical treatment in Israel, a rule enforced on their people by Palestinian leadership. The reason: Israel objected to the Palestinians paying large salaries to the families of terrorists who attack Israel. Palestinian leadership wants Israel to not only accept their terrorist attacks, but to also help pay for them.

Observation after watching Tweet impressions in real time on analytics: @Jerusalem_Post stories I Tweet get the lowest initial impressions. By far. Not even close. Is the "algorithm" anti-Semitic?

— JD Rucker (@JDRucker) May 15, 2019

Clearly, he and others in Palestinian leadership have no problem calling for the destruction of Israel and getting as much international support as possible while simultaneously looking to Israel when they need help.

Israel and the United States have spent decades being the countries that everyone hates while simultaneously being called upon by those who hate us to come to the rescue when they need us. Convenient hatred, I suppose.

Following a major ramp up of America’s military presence in the Persian Gulf based on intelligence, likely from defector Ali Nasiri, that Iran was planning attacks against the United States and our allies, non-essential personnel  were ordered to leave Iraq Embassy and.consulate.

Security Alert – U. S. Embassy Baghdad, Iraq | U.S. Embassy & Consulates in Iraq

https://t.co/EFAjDFO4j1

"U.S. State Department has ordered the departure of non-emergency U.S. Government employees from Iraq."

● The fit is about to hit the shan! ●@NoqReport@JDRucker

— ☆ Hawaii Conservative ☆ (@OverHorizon808) May 15, 2019

Now, Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) has taken to Twitter to repeat the administration’s claims that we are not provoking war with Iran.

More importantly, he gave the first real details of a possible plan to attack American interests using proxies in Iraq and Yemen.

URGENT: 1/5
These actions are not the prelude to a U.S. attack against #Iran

There is clear & persistent evidence,supported by observable movements on the ground,that Iran’s proxy forces in #Iraq & #Yemen plan to attack Americans with the intent of inflicting mass casualties https://t.co/NqQB3R8tXD

— Marco Rubio (@marcorubio) May 15, 2019

His full Twitter thread:

This is obviously a very disturbing development. Iran has been backed into a corner after being treated so kindly by President Obama and the United Nations, who essentially bribed them to cease their nuclear program. But repeated missile tests that went against the Iran Nuclear Deal and an unwillingness to comply with U.N. inspectors prompted President Trump to pull out of the deal and slap sanctions back on Iran. Now, he’s planning to tighten the grip on the Middle Eastern nation by cutting loopholes that have allowed others to keep trading with them.

With oil being the primary export of Iran, such sanctions will devastate an economy that has been floundering for over a year.

#BREAKING: Iraqi Former Vice President Iyad Allawi: US official informed me that the Israeli intelligence has satellite images of Iranian ballistic missile platforms in Basra city directed towards the Gulf, this is why Mike Pompeo suddenly visited Iraq last week- @Mustafa_Habib33

— ELINT News (@ELINTNews) May 15, 2019

To exacerbate the situation, U.S. military intelligence along with others have said initial indicators implicate Iran in last weekend’s sabotage attacks on four oil tankers. If it’s true, then it could represent the first stage of a much broader attack in the near future. Iran is known for using proxies to do their dirty work. In the Middle East, their proxies are embedded in Iraq, Syria, Yemen, and Lebanon. Their reach is wide and their capabilities are sufficient to do real damage.

And that doesn’t even take into account their cozy relationships with Russia, China, and North Korea.

Rumors of war are rumbling. This does not appear to be the standard saber rattling we’ve come to expect from Iran. They are cornered and they’re getting desperate. Pray for peace. Be ready for war.