US President Donald Trump says he’s spoken with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and instructed him to stop attacks on Iranian oil and gas facilities. Report CNN
“I told him, don’t do that,” Trump said. “And he won’t do that.”
Trump previously said the United States “knew nothing” about an Israeli strike on Iranian facilities in the South Pars gas field, the world’s largest natural gas reserve.
But an Israeli source familiar with the attack told CNN on Wednesday that Israel had carried out the attack in coordination with the US, contradicting the president’s claim. A US source also told CNN that the US was “aware” of the strike.
Trump said during a meeting in the Oval Office the US and Israel were “independent” but “get along great.”
“It’s coordinated. But on occasion he’ll do something, and if I don’t like it, and so we’re not doing that anymore,” he said.
