Authored by Victoria Freedman via The EPoch Times,
U.S. President Donald Trump on March 8 said the decision on when to end the Iran War will be a mutual one that he will make with input from Israel.
“I think it’s mutual ... a little bit. We’ve been talking. I’ll make a decision at the right time, but everything’s going to be taken into account,”Trump told The Times of Israel in a telephone interview.
Asked whether he thought it would be necessary for Israel to continue their campaign even after the United States decides to stop its airstrikes, the U.S. president said, “I don’t think it’s going to be necessary.”
Trump also said that Iran was “going to destroy Israel and everything else around it,” adding, “we’ve worked together [with Israel]. We’ve destroyed a country that wanted to destroy Israel.”
On Feb. 28, the United States and Israel jointly launched an attack on Iran, with the Islamic Republic’s leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, being killed in the first salvo of the war.
On March 9, the Iranian regimechoseMojtaba Khamenei, the son of Ali Khamenei, as the next leader.
Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katzsaidin a March 4 post on X that whoever is appointed to replace the deceased Iranian leader “will be an unequivocal target for elimination.”
“[Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu] and I have instructed the [Israel Defense Forces] to prepare and act by all means to carry out the mission as an integral part of the objectives of Operation ‘Lion’s Roar,’”Katz said, using Israel’s term for the military offensive against Iran and its proxies.
Trump similarlytoldABC News on March 8 that Iran’s next leader is “not going to last long” if he does not get approval from the United States.
Source: ZeroHedge News
