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Trump reportedly advised Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu against such a move, saying it was “not a good idea.” The debate came after Israel bombed Iran last Friday. Trump has not commented publicly about his reported discussion with the Australians.
Asked in a recent interview, Netanyahu did not confirm or deny that Trump had nixed the proposed plan. “There are so many false reports of things, of conversations that never happened, and I won’t even tell you about the conversations, because I wouldn’t do that, but there are so many false reports,” he said “We do what we need to do, and the United States knows what is good for the United States.”
An Israeli official, who spoke on anonymity, said the country does not target political leaders as a matter of policy, adding that political targets are typically “not people but systems.” He added: “We are looking for nuclear systems and those that threaten them.” “I don’t think anyone who’s making decisions about those programs should be living free and easy,” the official added.
Rising tensions between Israel and Iran
Israel began striking Iranian nuclear facilities and other targets on Friday. The military exchanges between the two countries have persisted and were active on Sunday, the third day in a row of confrontations.
Trump took to Truth Social about the increasing hostilities and implored both nations to come to terms. He wrote that “Iran and Israel should make a deal,” and said that he could handle peace negotiations, a nod to his earlier efforts between India and Pakistan.
Scrubbed talks, festering tensions
The next round of nuclear negotiations between the United States and Iran had been scheduled to start on Sunday. But Oman’s foreign minister Badr Albusaidi said a day earlier that the discussions had been scuttled.
Iran told Qatar and Oman that it would not consider a truce while Israeli attacks continued, the mediators said in a message to the mediators.
TRUMP’S PRE-G-7 SHOW – Trump expressed his support for Israel before flying to the G7 summit in Canada, without confirming if he had called on Israel to end its military operations. On Saturday, he reiterated that the US had absolutely nothing to do with Israel’s raid on Iran. He also had a warning for Tehran, warning Iranians that if Iran attacked the US “in any form”, it would face US military might “at a level that it has never seen before”.
