Donald Trump with Benjamin Netanyahu at Mar-a-Lago last December.Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu has defied Donald Trump to launch retaliatory air strikes on Iran.
The US president had claimed “I call the shots” just hours before the Israeli action.
Israel’s military said it carried out strikes on military targets in central and western Iran early on Monday morning.
Netanyahu’s decision is a major blow to Trump’s hopes of striking a peace deal with Iran to end the war which began on February 28.
Tehran launched missiles on northern Israel on Sunday, which Trump told Fox News was “certainly not going to help negotiations”.
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