In October 2013, Sheldon Adelson, the casino magnate and prominent supporter of conservative politicians, appeared on a panel in New York in which he suggested that the US could send a message to Iran, regarding its nuclear ambitions, by detonating an American warhead in the middle of the Iranian desert.
Bloomberg reports Adelson as saying, “You want to be wiped out? Go ahead and take a tough position.”
Not surprisingly, Adelson went on to become a major supporter of President Donald Trump.
The critical implications regarding this past war of words came only months after Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said America should ‘slap these prating people in the mouth’.
In February 2014, hackers inserted malware into the computer networks of Adelson’s Sands Casino in Las Vegas.
The withering cyber-attack laid waste to approximately three quarters of the company’s Las Vegas servers, and the cost of recovering data and building new systems was reported to be US$40 million or more.
A year after the attack, a top US intelligence official confirmed that Iran was behind it.
Today, the US is again awaiting retribution from Iran, following a recent airstrike that…
