President Trump told Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu hours before the strikes not to retaliate after Tehran conducted a retaliatory attack on Israel. A US Defense official said the US Military was not involved in the Israeli strikes on Iran. The official said the Israeli strikes were relatively limited in their scope. So we have returned to firing missiles. Active hostility between Iran and Israel. (27:27–27:33)
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Asserts that the US military was not involved in the Israeli strikes on Iran.
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