More details are emerging regarding the flurry of conversations between US President Donald Trump and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as the conflict erupted between Israel and Iran for the first time since a ceasefire took effect in early April.
In a reported conversation with the BBC, Trump denies that Netanyahu had defied him by ordering military action against Iran in response to missile attacks on Israel, saying: “If I tell him to do something, he does it.”
“All I said [to Netanyahu] was we have to use common sense, we’re close to signing a very powerful deal, a very good deal,” the BBC reports the US president as saying.
The BBC says Trump was then asked if Netanyahu had defied him.
“No, no. That’s not what happened,” Trump says. “[The missiles] had already gone, they were already on their way.”
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