Trump approved Iran operation after Netanyahu argued for joint killing of Khamenei, sources say

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: Yahoo! News/Military Times

Mon, March 23, 2026 at 5:10 PM EDT


Less than 48 hours before the U.S.-Israeli strike on Iran began, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke by phone to President Donald Trump about the reasons for launching the kind of complex, far-off war the American leader once had campaigned against.

Both Trump and Netanyahu knew from intelligence briefings earlier in the week that Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and his key lieutenants would soon meet at his compound in Tehran, making them vulnerable to a “decapitation strike” – an attack against a country’s top leaders often used by Israelis but traditionally less so by the United States.

But new intelligence suggested that the meeting had been moved forward to Saturday morning from Saturday night, according to three people briefed on the call. The call has not been previously reported.

Netanyahu, determined to move forward with an operation he had urged for decades, argued that there might never be a better chance to kill Khamenei and to avenge previous Iranian efforts to assassinate Trump, these people said. Those included a murder-for-hire plot allegedly orchestrated by Iran in 2024, when Trump was a candidate.

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[Ray Bruns]

1. As if we needed more evidence that this is Netanyahu's war .

[underpants]

2. He could've said "we'd be greeted as liberators"

Trump could make history by helping eliminate an Iranian leadership long reviled by the West and by many Iranians, Netanyahu argued. Iranians might even take to the streets, he said, overthrowing a theocratic system that had governed the country since 1979 and been a leading source of global terrorism and instability ever since.

[TheRickles]

3. If Bibi framed it as Trump's chance to get back at those guys who tried to assassinate him,,

then Bibi was guaranteed that Trump would buy in. Whether or not there ever was an Iranian plot to kill Trump, it would be the perfect framing to trigger Trump's need for revenge.

[travelingthrulife]

7. Just another fake assassination attempt. Like the rest of them.

[Javaman]

4. Israel wags the orange pedo. nt

[mzmolly]

5. The guy was pushing 90 years old.

What a ridiculous, dangerous adventure. And for what?

[Dr. T]

6. Bibi, appealing to Donnie the Destroyer's narcissistic

tendencies. Vengeance against his enemies, real or imagined. It's a proven strategy used by other world leads. Worst kept secret ever.