President Donald Trump on Wednesday said he’d personally asked Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu not to conduct airstrikes on Iranian nuclear facilities because such attacks could negatively affect ongoing talks with Tehran on a new deal to restrict the Islamic Republic’s nuclear weapons program.
Asked after the Oval Office swearing in of new interim D.C. U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro to confirm reports that he’d intervened during a phone call with the Israeli leader last week, Trump replied: “Well, I’d like to be honest. Yes, I did.”
