Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images Pentagon briefers acknowledged to congressional staff on Sunday that Iran had no plans to preemptively strike U.S. forces or bases in the region. The bombshell admission on CNN Sunday, citing multiple sources, undercuts President Donald Trump’s justification of the joint U.S.-Israeli strikes on the country. White House officials had claimed on Saturday that the U.S. chose to attack Iran because it had received indications that the country was planning to launch missile attacks against U.S. bases, according to CNN . Read more at The Daily Beast.