Trump vetoed Israeli plan to kill Iran’s Khamenei, reports say
US President Donald Trump rejected an Israeli plan to kill Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, multiple media outlets have reported.
Israeli officials informed the Trump administration that they had an opportunity to assassinate Khamenei in recent days, but the US president blocked the plan, the Reuters news agency reported, citing two unnamed US officials.
Reuters quoted an unnamed Trump administration official as saying that officials were “not even talking about going after the political leadership” until such time as Iran had killed an American citizen.
Multiple other outlets, including CNN, the Associated Press, CBS News and NBC News, confirmed the plan and Trump’s opposition to the proposal.
Israel not seeking regime change in Iran, foreign minister says
Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Saar has denied that Israel is seeking regime change in Iran.
Asked in an interview with CNN whether Khamenei is a potential target of Israeli’s military offensive, Saar said his government is not aiming to topple the Iranian leadership.
“The Security Cabinet had decided on the objectives – it was not one of the objectives. This is for the Iranian people to decide. We, Israel, do not see the Iranian people as our enemies. We had great relations with Iran until 1979, until the Islamic revolution… when a very barbaric regime came to power. These are the people that chant, ‘Death to America, death to Israel,'” Sa’ar said.
Multiple media outlets have reported that Israel presented a plan to kill Khamenei to the US, but Trump rejected the proposal.
And why did that regime come to power... 1953 Coup by the CIA to protect British oil interests, to install shah Pahlavi whose autocratic rule led to the Islamic revolution in 1979. https://www.npr.org/2019/01/31/690363402/how-the-cia-overthrew-irans-democracy-in-four-days
Trump says ‘it’s time for a deal’ between Israel and Iran
The US president has said he hopes Israel and Iran can broker a ceasefire, but also said that sometimes, countries have to fight it out first.
Talking to reporters as he left for the G7 summit in Canada, Trump said the US would continue to support Israel but declined to say if he had asked the US ally to pause strikes on Iran.
“I hope there’s going to be a deal. I think it’s time for a deal,” he said. “Sometimes, they have to fight it out. But we are going to see what happens. I think there’s a good chance there will be a deal.”
Sounds like there won't be a deal...
