
Less than 48 hours before the US-Israeli strike on Iran began, United States President Donald Trump and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke over the phone, weighing a rare intelligence window.
At the center of the discussion was a fleeting opportunity involving Iran’s top leadership, inclduing Islamic regime's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, one that pushed both leaders toward a high-stakes decision which has now roiled the engery sector and squeezed its supply.