Trump approved Iran protection action after Netanyahu contended for joint assassination of Khamenei: sources
Less than 48 hours before the US-Israeli walkout on Iran began, Premier Benjamin Netanyahu spoke by phone to Head Donald Trump about the reasons for
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Trump approved Iran protection action after Netanyahu contended for joint assassination of Khamenei: sources
Less than 48 hours before the US-Israeli walkout on Iran began, Premier Benjamin Netanyahu spoke by phone to Head Donald Trump about the reasons for launching the kind of complex, far-off conflict the American head once had campaigned against.
Both Trump and Netanyahu knew from intel briefings earlier in the week that Iranian Supreme Head Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and his key lieutenants would soon meet at his compound in Tehran, making them vulnerable to a "decapitation walkout" — an assault against a country's top leaders often used by Israelis but traditionally less so by the United States.
But new intel suggested that the session had been moved from Saturday night to Saturday morning, according to three individuals briefed on the call.
By the time the call took place, Trump already had approved the idea of the United States carrying out a legal defence team protection action against Iran but had not yet decided when or under what circumstances the United States would get involved, stated the sources, who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive internal deliberations.
The US legal defence team had for weeks built up a presence in the zone, prompting many within the governing body to conclude it was just a matter of when the head would decide to move forward. One possible date, just a few days earlier, had been scuttled because of bad weather.
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