The United States had no influence in how Israel chose its targets in Iran, Binyamin Netanyahu has said. The prime minister said his country chose where to strike based on “national interests, not according to what American dictates”.
Netanyahu’s office issued the statement in response to a “completely false” local television report that Israel had avoided striking Iranian gas and oil facilities because of US pressure.
President Biden said that he hoped the unprecedented wave of Israeli airstrikes launched on Iran on Saturday would mark “the end” of escalation between the two foes.
Binyamin Netanyahu at the defence ministry’s command centre on Thursday
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Explosions boomed out across Iran before dawn on Saturday as Israeli warplanes fired on a range of military targets, including missile manufacturing facilities and air defence batteries.
The attack, one of the