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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reportedly called off a further major strike on Iran on Monday following Israel’s initial retaliation to Iran’s ballistic missile barrages overnight Sunday. With IAF fighter jets on the runway, Trump instructed the premier to deescalate Israel’s fight with the Islamic Republic. Later, the president explained to a BBC reporter, “If I tell him to do something, he does it.”

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