Israel needs Trump’s ‘bunker buster’ but will US enter the war?
Since Israel launched air strikes on Iran last Friday, the two states have traded missiles with mounting casualties on both sides.
Iranian military leaders have been killed as have some of its nuclear scientists but the country’s citizens have borne the brunt of the air attacks.
Israel has said its rationale for the middle-of-the-night attack that sparked the war was its need to ensure, for its own protection, that Iran’s nuclear programme is halted.
How close Iran is to actually having a nuclear bomb is unclear but for Israel to obliterate entirely the nuclear threat it needs the US to join…
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