Israel, Netanyahu and Iran
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Today, as Israel finds itself locked in a multifront war with Iran and its proxies, Netanyahu is once again attempting his favorite trick: transmuting a national existential crisis into a personal political lifeline.
The Israeli prime minister won President Trump’s support for his effort to remake the Middle East by playing to Trump’s instincts.
Trump and Netanyahu, two political high rollers, are seen as more of an odd couple than Roosevelt-Churchill or Clinton-Blair. The war in Iran is their biggest gamble yet.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in a recorded message released Saturday morning that the attacks will let Iranians “take their fate into their own hands” and that Israel plans the current operation to be “much more powerful” than the bruising 12-day war Israel launched against Iran in June.
The IRGC-linked outlet pointed to a gap in recent footage, a reported security buildup, and other fragments of public information, but offered no proof that the Israeli prime minister was killed.
Iran fires drones and missiles at Israel and Gulf states as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vows his country will keep striking the Islamic Republic, saying the aim of the campaign was the p
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Trump announced joint strikes on Iran in a Truth Social video, directly addressing the Iranian people and telling them to seize control of their destiny.