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The Guardian - US
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Andrew Roth in Washington

Strike on Iran gasfield exposes US-Israel rift as Trump claims he did not know

Man in suit sits in Oval Office
Trump in the Oval Office on Thursday. He said he had told Benjamin Netanyahu to refrain from further attacks. Photograph: Aaron Schwartz/Pool/CNP/picture alliance/Consolidated News Photos

The US-Israeli war against Iran has exposed further divisions between the two countries after an Israeli strike on Iran’s largest gasfield angered US allies in the Gulf and prompted Donald Trump to say he knew nothing in advance about the attack – a claim that Israeli officials disputed.

Speaking in the Oval Office on Thursday, Trump said he had spoken to Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu following the strikes on Iran’s South Pars gasfield – part of a reserve shared with Qatar – and had told the Israeli prime minister to refrain from further attacks that could escalate a regional war on energy infrastructure.

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