The United States sent a carrier strike group to the Middle East to send an “unmistakable message” to Iran early this month. That message was made even more crystal just a few weeks later when President Trump issued a blunt threat never to mess with the US.
Tensions, in other words, have been extremely elevated, and the stakes incredibly high. Personnel have been called back. Assets have been moved. Footing, as they say, shifted.
While all that was going on between the people whose job it is to do such things and the country toward home that posture was taken, Democrat Sen. Dianne Feinstein caught a bite to eat with an Iranian Foreign Minister and it took Politico to bring it to light. In a pretty amazing way.
It started with an exposed iPhone screen. Here’s what Politico wrote:
SPOTTED: SEN. DIANNE FEINSTEIN (D-Calif.), who sits on the Senate Intelligence Committee, walking around the Capitol with her iPhone screen facing outward in full view, and Javad Zarif’s contact page on the screen. Zarif is the name of Iran’s foreign minister.
After seeing Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif’s name on her screen, they asked about it.
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