In his new tell-all book, The Room Where it Happened, scheduled to be released this week, former US National Security Adviser John Bolton wrote that during a 2017 meeting he had with President Donald Trump, the latter expressed willingness to support an Israeli attack on Iran in order to stop its nuclear program if Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered a strike.
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According to the book, which Trump and other administrations have attacked as full of lies and distortions, Bolton was at a meeting with the president in which Iran's conduct was a central topic of conversation, even though at that time he was not a member of the White House inner circle.
"On Iran, I urged that he [Trump] press ahead to withdraw from the nuclear agreement and explained why the use of force against Iran's nuclear program might be the only lasting solution," Bolton wrote.
According to Bolton, the president, in response, said unprompted: "You tell Bibi that if he uses force, I will back him. I told him that, but you tell him again."
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