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Henry Bodkin – The Telegraph May 28, 2025

Donald Trump warned Benjamin Netanyahu not to derail the US-Iran nuclear talks by launching strikes on the Islamic Republic.

Amid widespread rumours of heated phone calls between the Israeli prime minister and Donald Trump, The New York Times reported that Mr Netanyahu raised the possibility of a unilateral attack.

Last night, Mr Trump confirmed that the pair had spoken, adding: “I just said I don’t think it’s appropriate, we’re having very good discussions with them.”

“I told him this would be inappropriate to do right now because we’re very close to a solution.

“I think they want to make a deal, and if we can make a deal, save a lot of lives.”

Israeli officials also warned US counterparts that Mr Netanyahu might order strikes even if a deal were achieved, according to the report.

Experts and politicians in Israel are broadly of the opinion that it would be unthinkable for the Jewish state to act militarily against Iran without US co-operation.

This is because Israel would need American hardware to ensure that strikes were as effective as possible, and would not want to offend Mr Trump by upstaging his diplomatic efforts.

However, there is mounting concern that the US president might strike a “soft” deal with Iran that would not go far enough in dismantling the country’s nuclear production capability to guarantee Israel’s security

Strategists also worry that Israel may lose its optimum window to strike while Iran strings out the talks.

Iran is considered to be particularly vulnerable at the moment, after the IDF took out the bulk of its strategic air defence system last autumn.

The effective defeat of Hezbollah in Lebanon also plays in Israel’s favour because, under normal circumstances, attacking Iran would have provoked a barrage of rockets from the terror group.

Comment – May 30, 2025

It’s been said that the Daily Telegraph is a Zionist information outlet and the above article confirms that claim.

The last three paragraphs are pure Israeli disinformation.

Although Hezbollah may indeed have sustained losses during Israeli strikes last autumn it is far from defeated.

More significantly however, claims that Israel took out the bulk Iran’s strategic air defence system are a blatant lie.

That’s obvious because if Israel had taken out Iran’s strategic air defences its air force would have taken the opportunity to take out the rest of Iran’s nuclear facilities.

The fact that it didn’t tells us that this article is utter drivel

So why didn’t the Israeli Air Force follow up? That’s the million dollar question and the Telegraph’s failure to even address it speaks volumes about who controls the mainstream media.

However, military analysts are generally in agreement that the IAF didn’t complete its mission because Iranian air defence systems had locked onto to Israel’s F-35s.

To their dismay Israel’s F-35s, which were supposedly invisible to radar, had been identified and were targeted by Iran’s sophisticated air defence systems.

So rather than face an imminent hail of missiles the Israeli Air Force aborted the mission. Having inflicted only minimal damage to Iranian air defences.

 

The rest of the bullxxx! Telegraph article can be read here …