President Trump denied responsibility for the destruction of an Iranian satellite on the launchpad, releasing an unusual high-resolution aerial photo of the debris.
One day after an Iranian rocket appeared to explode on its launchpad, President Trump denied U.S. responsibility Friday for the extensive damage and released an unusually detailed aerial photo of the debris-strewn launch site.
In his tweet, Trump appeared to reach out to officials in Tehran after months of mounting tensions. “I wish Iran best wishes and good luck in determining what happened,” he wrote.also carried a surprise — a high-resolution reconnaissance image of the damaged Imam Khomeini Space Center in northern Iran, with annotations identifying damaged vehicles and scorched facilities.
It’s unclear how the image made it to Trump’s Twitter feed. It appears to show the reflection of a camera flash, suggesting it may be a smartphone photo of another image — the kind that might have been shared with the president in his intelligence briefing Friday.“This is wild,” said David Joseph Schmerler, a senior research associate at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey, a graduate school.
U.S. intelligence officials normally seek to protect reconnaissance capabilities. But presidents are authorized to declassify any information they want, and Trump defended his decision.
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