Netanyahu urged US to attack Iran after Trump’s election loss — report
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General Mark Milley, the chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, had been fighting to prevent Trump from ordering a strike against Iran as the president was circled by hawks, including Netanyahu, pressuring him to execute such a strike, according to a report Thursday by the New Yorker.
“If you do this, you’re gonna have a fucking war,” Milley reportedly warned Trump.
Other foreign policy advisers, including then-vice president Mike Pence, had also reportedly pushed for military action against Iran, in a meeting in which Trump was not present.
When Milley asked why they were so intent on attacking Iran, Pence replied: “Because they are evil.”
Milley believed that Trump did not want a war, but said he kept pushing for a missile strike in response to Iranian provocations against US interests in the region. The chairman ultimately succeeded in preventing such a strike in the tail-end of Trump’s term.
Israel, under Netanyahu, had warned repeatedly that it may act independently against Iran to prevent it from obtaining nuclear weapons.
“We will not allow Iran to get nuclear weapons. There can be no going back to the previous nuclear agreement. We must stick to an uncompromising policy of ensuring that Iran will not develop nuclear weapons,” Netanyahu said last November, referring to the 2015 nuclear deal with world powers from which Trump withdrew in 2018.
“The IDF will forcefully attack anyone who takes part, from near or far, in activities against the State of Israel or Israeli targets. I am saying this plainly and am describing the situation as it is — the response and all the plans have been prepared and practiced,” Israel Defense Forces chief of staff Aviv Kohavi said in December of the same year.
Netanyahu’s successor, Naftali Bennett, has taken an approach of increased dialogue with the current US administration of Joe Biden on the matter, although he too has reserved Israel’s right to take independent action.
Israel insists that Iran still maintains the ambition of developing nuclear weapons, pointing to Tehran’s ballistic missile program and research into other technologies. Iran long has maintained that its nuclear program is for peaceful purposes.
Netanyahu urged US to attack Iran after Trump’s election loss — report
Netanyahu urged US to attack Iran after Trump’s election loss — report
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