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• Iran's new chief of spying at the CIA is a "tough guy" who has directed the tracking down of Osama bin Laden and headed the controversial assassination program by armed drones, the New York Times reported Friday .
• The choice of Michael D'Andrea - the CIA has refused to confirm his name or comment on his duties - illustrates the harder line adopted by the Trump administration towards Iran, according to intelligence sources quoted by the daily.
• D'Andrea, who is 60 years old and the peculiarity of having converted to Islam, has been at the heart of the fight against jihadist groups.
• He was responsible for the CIA Counter-Terrorism Center in the 2000s, during which he supervised the hunt for Al-Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden, who was killed during a spectacular US Special Forces raid Pakistan in May 2011.
• He also led the Obama administration's "targeted assassination" program, which killed thousands of jihadists and civilians in Pakistan and Afghanistan with armed drones.
• The New York Times revealed the identity of Mr. D'Andrea in 2015 after the death of two Western hostages in the bombing of a CIA drone. The intelligence agency was unaware of the presence of the American and Italian hostages in the affected house.
• According to the newspaper, the new director of the CIA, Michael Pompeo, and Michael D'Andrea could hold the keys to determine whether Iran respects the nuclear agreement concluded by the administration of Barack Obama to prevent Tehran from acquiring the The ultimate weapon, or if on the contrary the Islamic republic violates it.
• During the election campaign, Donald Trump had repeatedly promised to "tear" the agreement and on a recent trip to Saudi Arabia, the president clearly designated Iran as an enemy to be knocked down.

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