Trump talked Netanyahu out of a significant Iran strike: Sources

Israel was preparing for a significant attack in Tehran on Monday when US President Donald Trump placed a phone call to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to tell him to hold off on further retaliatory strikes, according to an Israeli source and a US official familiar with the matter.

The intervention appeared to have worked. Netanyahu announced afterward that Israel had halted attacks on Iran for now. It was Trump's second phone call to Netanyahu in a matter of hours; in an earlier conversation, Trump similarly directed the Israeli leader to back off strikes in response to the barrage of missiles Iran had fired toward Israel.

0:00 Netanyahu planned a significant Iran strike, but Trump talked him down: Sources 3:19 Where do war talks stand? 5:05 Expert reacts: Fmr Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for the Middle East

Watch more CNN here: https://cnn.it/4kh5RPe

#Trump #Netanyahu #News