Senior official after White House meeting: ‘We are in critical period’; Netanyahu gave Trump intel on Iran, believes there is no choice but to attack again

“We are in a critical period,” a senior Israeli official tells Channel 12 after the Oval Office meeting between Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and US President Donald Trump and their teams.

“President Trump will make a decision soon where he is heading,” says the official. “We are not pushing him, but also aren’t burying our heads in the sand. Netanyahu presented [Trump with] the Israeli perspective.”

Netanyahu presented Trump with Israeli intelligence on Iran, says the senior official.

“Netanyahu believes there is no choice” but to attack Iran again, the Channel 12 report continues, apparently still quoting the senior Israel official. These need to be “significant attacks — on nuclear facilities, capabilities that have been rebuilt, and sites that weren’t previously hit.” Such strikes, Israel believes, would have the potential to “shake the stability of the regime.”