Middle East: Trump took secret flight out of Turkey over Iran threat

NEW: Trump secretly flew out of Turkey on a military flight after July's NATO summit, using a decoy Air Force One ruse amid a credible Iranian assassination threat, the Washington Post reports.

Trump's plane out of Turkey was a decoy. The real president left Ankara on a secret military flight after July's NATO summit — because of a credible Iranian assassination threat, according to the Washington Post.

Remember these pictures? Trump waving from the steps of that baby blue Air Force One. The White House let everyone believe that's how he flew home. It wasn't. The whole boarding was theater while he slipped out another way.

And the backdrop keeps getting darker. Talks with Tehran on reopening the Strait of Hormuz have hit a wall, and oil noticed — Brent's just under eighty-eight dollars after a five percent jump Monday, up around ten percent on the week. One analyst called it a war of attrition: who blinks first. Nobody's blinking yet.

So here's my line: Brent closes this week above ninety dollars a barrel.

This is Kateryna Kovalenko, reporting for HIT.

Source Read the original reporting at dw.com