The United States' entry into war with Iran on 28 February 2026 was shaped in part, by a private campaign led by figures outside the American government, including Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and News Corp founder Rupert Murdoch, even as some of Donald Trump's most senior advisers kept their reservations to themselves.
That is the picture drawn by a Bloomberg report published on 21 March 2026, citing multiple people familiar with the matter who spoke on condition of anonymity. The report describes a president who received little direct internal pushback before authorising strikes, and who instead found his most enthusiastic encouragement from a foreign head of government and a billionaire media proprietor.
