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Trump denies Israel ‘forced’ US to attack Iran: ‘I might have forced Israel’s hand’

By Christian Datoc
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President Donald Trump denied on Tuesday that Israel was responsible for dragging the United States into a brewing conflict with Iran.

Trump said during an impromptu press conference in the Oval Office with German Chancellor Friedrich Merz that Iran was likely to attack first and that, if anything, the U.S. forced Israel into the conflict.

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