WASHINGTON (TNND) — President Donald Trump said over the weekend that if the war in Iran ends, it will be a mutual decision with Israel.
“I think it’s mutual a little bit,” Trump said during an interview with The Times of Israel.
“We’ve been talking. I’ll make a decision at the right time, but everything’s going to be taken into account.”
During the phone interview, Trump also said that Israel would have been destroyed if it weren’t for him and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
“Iran was going to destroy Israel and everything else around it We’ve worked together,” the president said.
“We’ve destroyed a country that wanted to destroy Israel.”
When Trump was asked if Israel could continue war with Iran if the U.S. decided to stop striking, he said, “I don’t think that’s going to be necessary.”
Last month, Israel and the U.S. conducted drone strikes on Iran over concerns that the Middle Eastern country was building missiles.
As a result of the drone strikes, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was killed. His son Mojtaba Khamenei was named as the new leader.
Trump said that the U.S. would be involved in choosing Iran’s next leader but Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi dismissed that claim.
“We allow nobody to interfere in our domestic affairs,” Araghchi told NBC’s “Meet the Press.” “This is up to the Iranian people to elect their new leader.”