Details Of Netanyahu's Conversation With Trump That Launched The Attack On Iran Have Been Revealed
- 4.03.2026, 13:11
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After him, the President of the United States was left in no doubt.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and U.S. President Donald Trump had a phone conversation on Feb. 23, a decisive moment that kicked off a war with Iran, Axios reported, citing sources.
According to the publication, Netanyahu called Trump and told him that Iran's supreme leader Ali Khamenei and his closest advisers should gather at a single location in Tehran on Saturday, February 28.
The Israeli prime minister said all Iranian officials could be killed in a single airstrike, three sources familiar with the discussion said.
At the time, the US president had not yet made a final decision on when to strike Iran.
According to Axios, the US and Israel had considered a strike a week earlier Saturday but postponed it for intelligence and operational reasons, particularly bad weather.
The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) subsequently confirmed Netanyahu's information about Khamenei.
An unnamed U.S. official noted that Trump made a "deliberate decision" not to focus too much on Iran in his annual speech to the U.S. Congress so as not to scare the ayatollah into going into hiding before the strike.