Bibi Urged US to Attack Iran after Trump’s Election Loss

By Staff, Agencies

Former “Israeli” Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu urged Donald Trump to launch a military strike against Iran after it was clear that the former US president had lost the 2020 election, a report said Thursday.

General Mark Milley, the chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, had been fighting to prevent Trump from ordering a strike against Iran as the president was circled by hawks, including Netanyahu, pressuring him to execute such a strike, according to a report Thursday by the New Yorker.

Other foreign policy advisers, including then-vice president Mike Pence, had also reportedly pushed for military action against Iran, in a meeting in which Trump was not present.

When Milley asked why they were so intent on attacking Iran, Pence replied: “Because they are evil.”

Milley believed that Trump did not want a war, but said he kept pushing for a missile strike in response to alleged Iranian provocations against US interests in the region. The chairman ultimately succeeded in preventing such a strike in the tail-end of Trump’s term.

The “Israeli” entity, under Netanyahu, had warned repeatedly that it may act independently against Iran to prevent it from obtaining "nuclear weapons".

“We will not allow Iran to get nuclear weapons. There can be no going back to the previous nuclear agreement. We must stick to an uncompromising policy of ensuring that Iran will not develop nuclear weapons,” Netanyahu said last November, referring to the 2015 nuclear deal with world powers from which Trump withdrew in 2018.

Netanyahu’s successor, Naftali Bennett, has taken an approach of increased dialogue with the current US administration of Joe Biden on the matter, although he too has reserved the entity’s right to take independent action.