{"id":315924,"date":"2026-03-01T07:11:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-01T07:11:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/315924\/"},"modified":"2026-03-01T07:11:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-01T07:11:08","slug":"saudi-arabia-israel-pushed-donald-trump-for-iran-strike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/315924\/","title":{"rendered":"Saudi Arabia, Israel pushed Donald Trump for Iran strike"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>US President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/american-politics\/article-888317\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Donald Trump\u2019s<\/a> decision to launch Operation Epic Fury against Iran on Saturday in a joint operation with Israel followed weeks of behind-the-scenes pressure from Israel and Saudi Arabia, the Washingron Post reported on Sunday, citing accounts from officials and regional sources.<\/p>\n<p>Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu publicly pushed for strikes against Iran, while<a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/article-888318\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> Saudi Arabia\u2019s<\/a> role appeared more complex.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman reportedly made several private phone calls to Trump over the past month, pushing for an attack despite publicly endorsing a diplomatic solution, the Washington Post reported.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">Simultaneously, Riyadh released a statement that the state would not allow its territory to be used in the event of an attack.<\/p>\n<p>Salman reportedly warned US officials that if the strike didn\u2019t happen soon, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/middle-east\/iran-news\/article-888283\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Iran<\/a> would come away stronger and more dangerous.<\/p>\n<p>On Saturday, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/middle-east\/iran-news\/article-888326\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Trump<\/a> told Axios that Operation Epic Fury was launched for two reasons: the first being the collapse of the US-Iran nuclear talks in Geneva, and the second being that the regime had begun to rebuild the nuclear facilities that had been struck during the Israel-Iran war in June<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">&#8220;The Iranians got close and then pulled back &#8211; close and then pulled back. I understood from that that they don&#8217;t really want a deal,&#8221; Trump explained.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">Additionally, while preparing his speech announcing the operation, Trump requested his team compile a list of every Iranian-linked attack around the world over the past 25 years, and found that \u201cevery month they did something bad, blew something up or killed someone.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"US President Donald Trump\u2019s decision to launch Operation Epic Fury against Iran on Saturday in a joint operation&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":315925,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[54,85,87,46,47,66318,43,157282,17468,78],"class_list":{"0":"post-315924","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-israel","8":"tag-donald-trump","9":"tag-il","10":"tag-iran","11":"tag-israel","12":"tag-middle-east","13":"tag-mohammed-bin-salman","14":"tag-news","15":"tag-operation-epic-fury","16":"tag-operation-rising-lion","17":"tag-saudi-arabia"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315924","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=315924"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315924\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/315925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=315924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=315924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=315924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}