(Washington) A senior official announced on Friday the dismissal of the military intelligence chief to the United States, after the publication of a report on the strikes carried out by the United States in Iran who would have greatly displeased Donald Trump.
The dismissal of Lieutenant-General Jeffrey Kruse, who had held this function since the beginning of 2024, arrived shortly after his services estimated that the American strikes in June had delayed the nuclear program of Teheran for several years.
This report, whose press has echoed, differs significantly from the claims of Donald Trump, who hammers that the attacks in question have completely destroyed the targeted nuclear sites.
Jeffrey Kruse “will no longer assume the functions of DIA director (Defense Intelligence Agency),” said the senior military official, under the cover of anonymity. He did not advance any reason for this dismissal.
Since his return to power, the Republican leader has presided over the dismissal of multiple senior Pentagon officials, starting with the chief of staff of the armies, Charles Brown, thanked in February without explanation.
The secretary La Défense Pete Hegseth, a faithful of Donald Trump, defends the right of the president to choose army leaders as he sees fit, but elected democrats were worried about a possible politicization of the latter.
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Pete Hegseth had led the counterattack after the military intelligence report on Iran strikes circulated in the press.
According to him, the document “leaked because someone wants to esay to (…) make believe that these historical strikes were not a success. »»
Donald Trump, whom his former chief of staff had described as a “dictator aspiring”, made loyalty the main criterion to recruit his second mandate.
He also applies this logic to the army, historically neutral, for which he has an unconted fascination.
The American president, for example, organized a rare military parade on June 14 in Washington, which has marked 250 years since the creation of the American army, and which also happens to be that of his birthday.
He deployed the National Guard, a reserve corps, in Los Angeles and then in Washington.
Several senior civilians have also been dismissed by the 79 -year -old billionaire.
Donald Trump recently returned the director of the main employment statistical agency after the publication of bad figures.
