Leon Panetta, the former director of the CIA during Barack Obama’s first term, has warned that President Donald Trump’s decision to bomb Iran – and the intelligence disputes surrounding it – only serve to emphasize “how dangerous a world we live in right now.”
Panetta, 86, who also served as Bill Clinton’s chief of staff and currently co-hosts the foreign policy podcast One Decision, told The i Paper: “I don’t think there’s any alternative but to understand how dangerous a world we live in right now.