The Jewish paper of record is claiming that Israel wanted to do a much larger counterstrike against Iran but was prevented from doing so by the United States.
RT:
Israeli leaders planned a “much more extensive counterstrike on Iran” after Tehran launched a drone and missile barrage on Israel last weekend, but were pressured to pare down the operation by the US and its allies, the New York Times reported on Monday.
Israel targeted Iran with a handful of drones and air-launched missiles on Friday, according to US officials and anonymous Israeli sources who spoke to the newspaper. While Western officials believe that an Israeli missile hit an Iranian airbase, Tehran has only acknowledged being attacked with small quadcopter drones, with Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian describing the aircraft as “children’s toys” that were easily shot down.
West Jerusalem initially intended a much wider wave of strikes targeting military sites across the country, including near Tehran, anonymous Israeli officials told the outlet. However, the US, UK, and Germany exerted “concerted diplomatic pressure” on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and forced him to settle for a more limited response, the officials said.
Such a response “avoided significant damage, diminishing the likelihood of an escalation,” the New York Times reported.
This is bullshit. Bibi has done whatever he’s wanted regardless of what anybody in Washington DC has said.
They’re just planting this nonsense in Jewish newspapers because the counterstrike they conducted was such an embarrassing failure.
