Trump greenlights Iran strikes alongside Israel, a decade after tweeting Obama would 'attack Iran to get re-elected'

Reports in June describe a closely coordinated U.S.-Israel posture on Iran in which President Donald Trump has signaled that Israel could conduct further strikes if Tehran revives its nuclear program or moves enriched material from damaged sites. Axios reported that Israeli officials believed Trump might approve renewed Israeli attacks under specific conditions, while later reporting said Trump had also pressed Israel to keep any response measured and avoid a broader escalation when Iran fired missiles at Israel. Israeli and U.S. officials described the broader dynamic as one of alignment on deterrence, but not necessarily an open-ended green light for unrestricted Israeli action. The context is the long-running dispute over Iran’s nuclear program and the risk of a wider regional war. According to the reporting, the Trump administration’s position tied any potential Israeli strike to Iranian attempts to reconstitute enrichment capacity, recover highly enriched uranium, or otherwise gain from the degraded state of facilities such as Fordow, Natanz, and Isfahan. That matters because it leaves Israel dependent on Washington’s political backing at a moment when Trump has also emphasized negotiations and restraint, creating uncertainty in Jerusalem about whether U.S. approval would extend to future operations or only to narrowly defined contingencies.

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