Netanyahu seeks to draw Trump into future attack on Iranian nuclear sites
Israeli PM urges US to help ‘finish the job’ as Washington makes early maximalist demand over Tehran’s programme
Israeli PM urges US to help ‘finish the job’ as Washington makes early maximalist demand over Tehran’s programme
www.theguardian.com
“Benjamin Netanyahu has vowed that, with Donald Trump’s support, his government will “finish the job” of neutralising the threat from Iran, amid US reports that Israel is considering airstrikes against Iranian nuclear sites in the coming few months.
Trump has said he would prefer to make a deal with Tehran, but also made clear that he was considering US military action if talks failed, and his administration has laid down an early maximalist demand: Iranian abandonment of its entire nuclear programme.
“All options are on the table,” the US national security adviser, Michael Waltz, told
Fox News on Sunday. The new administration will only talk to Iran, Waltz added, if “they want to give up their entire programme and not play games as we’ve seen Iran do in the past in prior negotiations”.
Earlier this month, Trump offered the Iranian regime a stark choice.
“I would like a deal done with Iran on non-nuclear,” he
told the New York Post. “I would prefer that to bombing the hell out of it.” …”