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Report claims US pressured Israel to strike Iran before midterms
Original: Explosive report alleges US pressured Israel to bomb Iran to protect Trump ahead of # midterms The Jerusalem Post detail
A Jerusalem Post report alleges the Trump administration pressured Israel over the past two weeks to carry out strikes on Iran, with the timing said to be aimed at helping Republicans ahead of the US midterm elections. Commentators are questioning the claim, asking how a strike on Iran would politically benefit Trump, while others await confirmation of the alleged pressure campaign.
Why now: The alleged link between US election timing and pressure for military action against Iran is a serious and contested claim.
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- Explosive report alleges US pressured Israel to bomb Iran to protect Trump ahead of # midterms The Jerusalem Post details a pressure campaign from Trump to urge # Israel to carry out strikes on # Iran “over the past two weeks.” Weird. How’s this help Trump? We out of bombs?… · ginaintheburg@mastodon.world · 5
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