"WTF" -- The White House reacted surprisingly after Israel, one of the United States’ closest allies in the Middle East, struck Iranian oil facilities on Saturday. The attack by the Benjamin Netanyahu-led government was not anticipated by the Donald Trump administration, marking the first major disagreement between the two partners who carried out a joint military mission against the Khamenei-led regime in Tehran last week, according to a scoop by Axios.
Washington’s concern was that Israeli strikes on Iranian oil depots, which serve ordinary people and not just the power centres, could eventually backfire strategically by rallying Iranians and strengthening public support for the current regime.
