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Edward Helmore

Democrats say they were left in dark about plans for US strikes on Iran

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Jim Himes, the top Democrat on the House intelligence panel. His staff were only informed after Donald Trump announced the attacks on social media. Photograph: J Scott Applewhite/AP

Senior Democrats have claimed they were left in the dark about operation Midnight Hammer, the US’s highly coordinated strike on Saturday on Iran’s nuclear enrichment program.

Neither Mark Warner, a US senator of Virginia, nor Jim Himes, a representative of Connecticut, both top Democrats on the Senate and House intelligence panels, were briefed before the attack, according to reports.

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