Nothing was done "in secret" .... our warships had been moved to the gulf area weeks before. Trump repeatedly stated that our desired outcome was negotiation. But, there were lines in the sand that Iran was not to cross, and there were concessions that they had to make, in order to move forward.... they repeatedly, adamantly refused. They were, from all intel accounts, just weeks from having the uranium refined enough to build bombs. THEIR strategy was to stall, lie, postpone long enough to get their bombs built.
THAT is why Trump gave them a hard, fast deadline to make the concessions. When they PROVED that they had no intention of stopping their drive to get nuclear weapons, the US and Israel took action.
That is not "perfidy"... that is a practical response to an un-cooperative threat to the US and the safety of the gulf region.
That is no more terrorism than the crash of our service aircraft... it was an accident... in wars, bad things happen, many times, accidentally.
You really need to remove your TDS tinfoil hat...
take this however you will-
iran has been saying that they met with u s officials for negotiations the friday before the attacks began on sat, 3 weeks ago,
they said they left the meeting with the understanding that more talks would be held on monday,
so, they are claiming they were double crossed and sneak attacked.
so, there is that..