Peter Thiel breaks with Trump over Iran war: 'We should not have done it'

Peter Thiel, cofounder and chairman of Palantir Technologies Inc. Bloomberg/Getty Images Thiel criticized the US-Iran war, diverging from Trump's foreign policy stance, POLITICO reported. "There were a lot of mistakes that were made," Thiel said at a lecture earlier this month. Despite his criticism of the war in Iran, Thiel highlighted his continued support for Trump. Billionaire technology investor Peter Thiel said he's skeptical of the US war with Iran and does not believe the United States should have launched it, putting the major Republican donor at odds with President Donald Trump over one of the administration's defining foreign policy decisions, POLITICO reported . Thiel's remarks, delivered on October 12 at a private event, are his most explicit statements to be revealed publicly about the war with Iran and come less than two weeks before the midterm elections in which Trump's party is grasping to maintain power in Congress.