Netanyahu Asks Trump to Bomb Iran (Again)
Netanyahu reportedly planning to present Trump with options for striking Iran's missile program. This isn't a new script. Netanyahu has been crying wolf on Iran since at least 1992, claiming Iran was "three to five years" from a nuclear bomb. Repeat performances include his 2002 congressional testimony, his 2006 speech at AIPAC (where he declared Iran had formed an "axis of terror" with Syria and
Hezbollah), and the infamous 2012 UN cartoon bomb. The consistency is striking: a drumbeat for war, regardless of the US president or Iran's actual capabilities. This narrative conveniently omits the fact that the US withdrew from the JCPOA—a deal curbing Iran's nuclear ambitions—under Trump, largely due to pressure from Netanyahu's government. So, first we undermine a diplomatic solution, then we
complain about the inevitable consequences, and then we push for war? How many times does the world get to watch this same play before calling it what it is?