Israeli President Isaac Herzog said Sunday that his country has nothing to do with what is happening between the U.S. and Iran.
“We are leaving it to the decision of the head of, the president of the United States and his team,” he said, per Politico. “Because it had to do with America’s national security interest, period. We are not intending and we don’t ask for America now to go to war because the Iranians are threatening Israel. The decision was taken because the Iranian nuclear program was a clear and present danger to the security interests of all of the free world.”
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President Donald Trump announced Saturday that the U.S. bombed three Iranian nuclear sites. Trump claimed Iran’s nuclear sites had been “completely and totally obliterated.”
Herzog was not able to verify that, but said the sites had been “hit very hard, both by the Israeli attacks and absolutely by the American attack overnight.”
The Israeli president also said any war planning is done by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the Israeli Security Cabinet. He added Trump and Netanyahu had “a very close and intimate dialogue.”
