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ORAC
The chances the US didn’t know were vanishingly small - Israel missions are supported by the USAF tankers deployed in Israel and the missions would have been detailed in the ATO along with whatever other support missions in their COMAO and the target details. So this is no surprise. The only surprise is that he thought he could lie and get away with it.
Totally. I assume nobody including Qatar believes the statement that they didn't know either.
So, it was an attempt to deter Iran from threatening the Strait? Unless there is more to it, seems like a counterintuitive move to me. Iran's only lever is the economic pain being brought on the West, something they will not give up and the US has just provoked them into using more of that lever.