Mattis: Obama’s Lack of Response to Iran’s ‘Act of War’ Was Because of Nuclear Deal

Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis speaks during a press briefing on Feb. 7, 2018. Samira Bouaou/The Epoch Times

Former Defense Secretary Jim Mattis said in a new book that the administration of then-President Barack Obama didn’t respond to an “act of war” from Iran because it wanted to see through the nuclear deal, which was signed in 2015.

Mattis said that when he took over U.S. Central Command in 2010, he knew Iran was the country’s most deadly adversary.