NEW: In a highly unusual move, National Security Adviser Bolton convened a meeting at CIA headquarters last week with the Trump admin.'s top intel, diplomatic and military advisers, according to 6 current US officials.
that is only able to be reviewed at CIA headquarters, two former officials said.
Mark Dubowitz of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies think tank, which takes a hard line on Iran, suggestedthat the administration could"build a wall of additional sanctions" to encourage Iran to halt its support for militants, its work on missiles and its human right abuses. "I'm deeply worried that the Trump administration is leading us toward an unnecessary war with Iran," Sen. Tim Kaine of Virginia, a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, said on Tuesday."Trump's Iran strategy is blind escalation," said Sen. Chris Murphy of Connecticut, who sits on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee."There is no endgame. No overriding strategy. No way out. It's just escalation for the sake of escalation.
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