Trump supported attacks, while faking peace talks.

Israel attacked Iran in an aggressive act of war. The US government supported the strikes, providing intelligence and planning with Netanyahu. Donald Trump cynically used nuclear negotiations with Tehran as cover, as he oversaw the joint US-Israeli operation.

Israel has launched a major attack on Iran, which could escalate into a larger war.

The United States is not just sitting on the sidelines, watching what is happening; the Donald Trump administration is directly involved.

The US government oversaw the attack. Washington provided Tel Aviv with crucial intelligence, to help it kill top Iranian officials, with US weapons.

Trump provided Israel with cover, by overseeing fake peace talks with Iran, which in reality were a cynical ruse.

As US officials met with their Iranian counterparts to discuss a new nuclear deal (after Trump unilaterally tore up the previous one), Washington and Tel Aviv were secretly planning the operation.

Trump personally gave Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu the green light to launch the strikes.

Trump: “I always knew the date” of Israel’s attack on Iran; “we knew everything”

Mere hours after Israel struck Iran, Trump told the New York Post that he had approved the attack beforehand.

“I always knew the date”, Trump said. “Because I know everything”.

“I gave [Iran] 60 days and they didn’t meet it. Today is day 61”, he added, referring to 13 June.

Trump repeated these comments in an interview with Reuters: “We knew everything”, he stated, revealing that the US government was in constant communication with Israel.

“I think it’s been excellent”, Trump said of the Israeli attack on Iran, in an interview with ABC News.

“We gave [Iran] a chance and they didn’t take it. They got hit hard, very hard. They got hit about as hard as you’re going to get hit”, Trump boasted. “And there’s more to come. A lot more”.

Just three days before the attack, the Trump administration sent Israel 300 Hellfire missiles, US officials admitted to Middle East Eye. These US missiles were used to kill Iranian officials.

Trump’s fake “peace talks” with Iran were cover for surprise attack

The Wall Street Journal summarized the Trump administration’s cynical strategy: “U.S. Diplomacy Served as Cover for Israeli Surprise Attack”.

Trump falsely claimed that he wanted peace with Iran, and US officials participated in five rounds of negotiations with Tehran. The sixth was supposed to be held in Oman on 15 June.

These talks aimed to broker a new Iran nuclear deal. Back in 2018, during his first term as US president, Trump unilaterally withdrew from the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), which had been signed into international law in 2015 and endorsed by a UN Security Council Resolution.

However, the Wall Street Journal noted that Trump’s bad-faith negotiations over a new agreement “ended up being the perfect cover for a surprise Israeli attack”.

This is how the Israeli media described Trump’s duplicitous scheme: “The US participated in a massive campaign to lull Iran into thinking an attack was not going to happen immediately”.

While publicly participating in these negotiations, the US government was privately helping Israel prepare for war on Iran.

A US official told ABC News that, before the attack, the Trump administration provided Israel with “exquisite” intelligence needed to target Iranian officials.

The media outlet Axios, which is very close to the Israeli government, reported the following (emphasis added):

Two Israeli officials claimed to Axios that Trump and his aides were only pretending to oppose an Israeli attack in public — and didn’t express opposition in private. “We had a clear U.S. green light,” one claimed.

The goal, they say, was to convince Iran that no attack was imminent and make sure Iranians on Israel’s target list wouldn’t move to new locations.

Netanyahu’s aides even briefed Israeli reporters that Trump had tried to put the brakes on an Israeli strike in a call on [9 June], when in reality the call dealt with coordination ahead of the attack, Israeli officials now say.

Trump boasts of US-backed “slaughter” and “brutal” attacks on Iran

Donald Trump is proud of his role in the attack on Iran.

Hours after Israel hit Tehran with US missiles, on 13 June, Trump took to his website Truth Social, where he boasted that “the United States makes the best and most lethal military equipment anywhere in the World, BY FAR, and that Israel has a lot of it, with much more to come – And they know how to use it”.

Trump wrote that some Iranian officials “spoke bravely, but they didn’t know what was about to happen. They are all DEAD now, and it will only get worse!”

The US president referred to these Israeli strikes that he was sponsoring as a form of “slaughter”, threatening that “the next already planned attacks [will be] even more brutal”.

One and a half hours later, Trump published another post on Truth Social.

The US president wrote, “Two months ago I gave Iran a 60 day ultimatum to ‘make a deal’. They should have done it! Today is day 61. I told them what to do, but they just couldn’t get there”.

Trump’s message was clear: if Tehran didn’t give in to Washington’s demands and surrender its sovereignty, the US would keep using Israel to bomb Iran.

Marco Rubio lied; USA was deeply involved

All of this context demonstrates that US Secretary of State and National Security Advisor Marco Rubio was blatantly lying when he claimed, “Israel took unilateral action against Iran. We are not involved in strikes against Iran”.

This is simply false. The Trump administration was involved in overseeing the operation. The US government provided Israel with intelligence and logistical support, not to mention the missiles, planes, and other military technology used to attack Iran.

Donald Trump personally gave Netanyahu and the Israeli regime the green light.

Moreover, when Tehran responded to Israel’s unilateral attack and hit back in self-defense, the US military was directly involved in intercepting and shooting down some of the Iranian missiles that were heading toward Tel Aviv.

What is clear is that everything that happened was a joint US-Israeli operation. Israel was not acting alone, and it certainly was not “dragging” the US into war. The Trump administration approved and oversaw this act of war.

Israel: an unsinkable aircraft carrier for the US empire

Israel is an extension of the US empire in one of the most strategic regions of the world.

Tel Aviv does not make significant military and foreign-policy decisions without first getting the approval of Washington.

Top Israeli military officials have admitted that, without US support, the IDF would not be able to wage war on Gaza (not to mention Iran, Lebanon, and Syria).

This is why former US President Joe Biden repeatedly declared that, “Were there not an Israel, the United States of America would have to invent an Israel to protect her interest in the region; the United States would have to go out and invent an Israel”.

As former US Secretary of State Alexander Haig explained, “Israel is the largest American aircraft carrier in the world that cannot be sunk, does not carry even one American soldier, and is located in a critical region for American national security”.

Prime Minister Netanyahu said the same. He proudly referred to Israel as a “mighty aircraft carrier” of the US empire.

It is the United States that arms and protects Israel. Washington gives it billions of dollars of military aid every year, including the weapons, ammunition, planes, and missiles that Israel uses to kill Palestinians and attack Iran, Lebanon, and Syria.

The United States also protects Israel in international fora, ensuring that it does not face any consequences for constantly violating international law and committing war crimes and crimes against humanity.

The Trump administration vetoed a resolution in the UN Security Council on 4 June that had called for a permanent ceasefire in Gaza. The US was the only country in the Council to oppose the peace measure.

In 2023 and 2024, the Biden administration vetoed four UN Security Council resolutions that demanded peace in Gaza.