{"id":197301,"date":"2019-11-03T09:03:18","date_gmt":"2019-11-03T09:03:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=197301"},"modified":"2019-11-03T09:03:18","modified_gmt":"2019-11-03T09:03:18","slug":"netanyahu-told-ministers-trump-cannot-be-counted-on-to-act-against-iran-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=197301","title":{"rendered":"Netanyahu told ministers Trump cannot be counted on to act against Iran \u2014 report"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\">Times of Israel &#8212; Nov 1, 2019<\/h1>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Netanyahu-possible-indictment.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-184474\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Netanyahu-possible-indictment.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"360\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Netanyahu-possible-indictment.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Netanyahu-possible-indictment-300x188.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 360px) 100vw, 360px\" \/><\/a>Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told a group of ministers recently that they should not expect the US to take serious action against Iran for at least the next year, according to a report Thursday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Netanyahu on Thursday <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #ccffff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.timesofisrael.com\/netanyahu-iran-emboldened-by-lack-of-response-to-its-attacks\/\">hinted publicly<\/a><\/strong><\/span> for the first time at unease with Washington\u2019s hesitancy to take action, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #ccffff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.timesofisrael.com\/trumps-new-actions-inactions-on-kurds-syria-iran-have-israel-deeply-worried\/\">echoing statements in recent weeks<\/a><\/strong><\/span> from officials speaking off the record about Iran\u2019s growing boldness.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">\u201cIran\u2019s brazenness in the region is increasing and even getting stronger in light of the absence of a response,\u201d he said at an IDF officer\u2019s graduation ceremony.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Privately, according to a report from Channel 13 news Thursday, he has been more vocal.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Several weeks ago, Netanyahu told cabinet members in a closed-door meeting that US President Donald Trump would not act against Iran until US general elections in November 2020 at the earliest, according to the report.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The report, which did not cite a source for the information, said Netanyahu told the ministers that in the interim Israel would have to deal with Iran on its own.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Israeli military officials <a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.timesofisrael.com\/a-strike-on-israel-by-an-emboldened-iran-looms-but-may-not-be-imminent\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>have expressed fears in recent days<\/strong><\/span><\/a><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong> that<\/strong><\/span> Iran is beginning to respond to Israeli attacks on its positions in Syria, emboldened by a perceived lack of resolve from the US, which has signaled its disengagement from the region.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">On Wednesday, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #ccffff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.timesofisrael.com\/air-defense-batteries-being-put-on-alert-amid-iranian-attack-fears\/\">Air Force Chief Amikam Norkin<\/a><\/strong><\/span> said Israel\u2019s complete air defense array had been placed on alert to guard against missile or drone attacks from Iran or proxies across the region.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Tensions surrounding Iran have ramped up in recent months, with the US sending extra troops and a warship to the Persian Gulf, but Washington has mostly shied from responding following a series of attacks on oil assets blamed on Iran.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The Iranian downing of a US drone also elicited no military response, with Trump calling back an air strike after planes were already in the air.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The White House\u2019s decision to pull troops out of northern Syria and abandon Kurdish allies there has also been seen as a sign of Trump\u2019s lack of willingness to engage militarily in the region.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Trump ran on a campaign of \u201cAmerica First\u201d isolationism and has sought to end US military operations abroad to a large degree, announcing troop pullouts from Afghanistan and Syria.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.timesofisrael.com\/netanyahu-told-ministers-us-cant-be-counted-on-against-iran-report\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite his tough talk, with the 2020 elections looming Trump is edging away from direct confrontation with Iran. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":184474,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[51,37,83],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-197301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-Iran","category-Israel_Anti-Semitism_Zionism_and_US-UK_allies","category-syria"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=197301"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197301\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":197304,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197301\/revisions\/197304"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/184474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=197301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=197301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=197301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}