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The State Department told regional allies about Israel's plan to strike Iran, and indicated it wasn't a U.S. operation, four sources told CBS News.
The explosive conflict between Israel and Iran is roiling the Middle East – and raising questions about whether the world is moving ahead without the U.S. Colonel Jack Jacobs, Anthony Fisher, Pablo Torre,
When President Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu spoke on Thursday, the Israeli leader told Trump that it was the last day of his 60-day timeline for Iran to make a deal. Israel could wait no longer, Netanyahu said,
President Donald Trump told CNN in a brief phone call Friday morning that the United States “of course” supports Israel and called the country’s strikes on Iran overnight “a very successful attack,” while warning Iran to make a nuclear deal.
The president had asked Israel to hold off. Now he’s scrambling to make a deal in negotiations that have become even more complex.
President Trump is trapped between the “America First” isolationists and others in his party who are cheering on Israel’s strikes against Iran.
Israel said fewer than 100 rockets had been fired from Iran. Israel's Channel 12 said two people were critically injured, eight moderately and 34 slightly from shrapnel.. The U.S. military has helped shoot down Iranian missiles headed for Israel,
President Trump joked that Iranian officials killed in Israel's airstrike clearly did not die of an illness, warning that Iran should have heeded his warning.
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