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Trump Signals Support for New Israeli Attack If Iran Moves toward Bomb

(Wall Street Journal) Alexander Ward - At the White House last week, Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu told President Trump that if Iran resumed moving toward a nuclear weapon, Israel would carry out further military strikes. Trump responded that he favored a diplomatic settlement with Tehran, but didn't otherwise object to the Israeli plan. Israel wouldn't necessarily seek explicit American approval to resume strikes on Iran, a senior Israeli official said. Trump is counting on the threat of further attacks to pressure Tehran into an agreement that would foreclose it from building a nuclear weapon. Israel is skeptical a diplomatic settlement would prevent Iran from secretly rushing toward a nuclear weapon. Top Israeli officials said they thought the U.S. and Israeli military strikes had set back Tehran's ability to build a nuclear weapon by up to two years, matching a recent Pentagon assessment. Any effort by Iran to retrieve the uranium from Isfahan or revive the decimated nuclear program would be quickly detected by Israel, the senior Israeli official said.
2025-07-13 00:00:00
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