LIVE UPDATE FROM THE LIVEBLOG OF TUESDAY,
JUNE 24, 2025
Israel reportedly planned to strike 15 key regime targets when Trump told Netanyahu not to respond to Iran missiles this morning
Israel was reportedly planning to strike 15 “important regime targets” in response to Iran’s violation of the fresh ceasefire with missile fire at the north this morning,before President Donald Trump told Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu not to carry out the attack.
According to Channel 12 news, Trump told him to prevent the entire attack when they spoke by phone, Netanyahu ordered the planes held over the skies of Iran, and the Israeli “political echelon” sought one site that could be targeted “with no collateral damage.”Ultimately, a single radar target was struck.
Trump made clear to Netanyahu that he had to heed what he was saying, the report adds.
Channel 12 also notes that in a podcast today, Trump’s former key adviser Steve Bannon said that Trump’s public denunciation of Netanyahu, in which Trump said that Iran and Israel “don’t know what the f*ck they’re doing,”showed Trump as angry as he has ever seen him.
“You have the gall,” said Bannon of Netanyahu. “When [Trump] said, ‘This is what I’ve done, and I need you to be a partner, I need you to stand down,’ first [Netanyahu] says ‘I can’t stop [the imminent strike],’which is another lie of the many lies we’ve gotten from the Netanyahu government.
That’s why he’s furious. That’s as mad as I’ve ever seen the president of the United States,” Bannon said.
“Netanyahu goes on Israel TV and glazes him. Don’t glaze him. Don’t slobber all over[Trump]. It doesn’t mean anything. You showed what you really thought of him last night,” he added.
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