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TEHRAN, May 16, YJC - Russia has rejected recent reports that US President Donald Trump shared with it information on “a planned Daesh operation.”
TEHRAN, Young Journalists Club (YJC) - The Washington Post recently carried a story saying Trump had done so in a meeting with Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and Ambassador to the US Sergei Kislyak last week. Reuters reported similarly, citing two "US officials.”
The original reports said that the information had been provided by a Washington ally and revealing it could put the US in harm’s way due to their "top secret” nature and due to the purported fact that Trump had refused to consult that ally before sharing it.
In his conversations with the Russian officials, Trump appeared to be boasting about his knowledge of the looming threats, telling them he was briefed on "great intel every day,” an official with knowledge of the exchange said, according to the Post.
Assistant Minority Leader at US Senate Dick Durbin has called the alleged development "dangerous” and "reckless,” and Bob Corker, the Republican head of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, described the allegations "very, very troubling” if true.
Trump is already in hot waters over claims that his electoral campaign benefited from Russian assistance and over his recent dismissal of FBI Director James Comey, who was overseeing a probe into those claims.
Earlier in the year, Michael Flynn was forced out of his job as Trump’s national security adviser after it was revealed that he had misled Vice President Mike Pence about a conversation he had had with the Russian ambassador in late December 2016, Presstv reported.
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