U.S. President Donald Trump stated that Israel is not involved in the ongoing strikes on Iran, according to a report from the Arab World the source. The brief statement offers no further details on the nature or target of the operations.
U.S. President Donald Trump said Israel was not involved in the strikes on Iran, according to journalist Asaf Rozentzweig (N12), reporting at 00:27 Jerusalem time (21:27 UTC). The brief remark does not specify which strikes he referred to, but lands after a timeline in which reports of U.S. operations inside Iran had been accumulating for over an hour. At 22:28 UTC, The Zioneer reported that Israeli security sources had told reporter Itai Blumenthal that Israel was not involved at this stage. Trump's own comment, now on the record via N12, effectively aligns with and reinforces that earlier Israeli assessment.
Earlier in the thread, at 21:27 UTC, initial reports spoke of power outages and an explosion in Bandar Abbas and Minab, southern Iran, assessed by analysts as possibly the start of an American wave of strikes. By the same time stamp, Arabic-language sources described a large-scale U.S. attack with explosions in Bandar Abbas, Minab, and Qeshm Island, though without official Iranian confirmation. A single Arabic security source later reported that the majority of strikes were concentrating on Iran's coast and islands, and assessed preparations for a possible ground landing — an unverified claim. Throughout the hour that followed, the thread's source base remained thin: no official statement from the White House, the Pentagon, or Iranian authorities had been issued.
As The Zioneer reported at 22:28 UTC, Israeli security sources had already distanced Israel from the operations. A separate background item, also at 22:31 UTC, cited the Arabic Desk stating that Israel was not involved. These statements, together with Trump's remark via N12, form a consistent picture that the U.S. is acting alone, but the absence of any on-record confirmation from the U.S. chain of command leaves the operational details — scope, targets, duration — still unverified. The White House and Pentagon have not officially commented on any of the reported strikes.
5 developments
- DevelopingTrump: 'We do not need Israeli intervention in Iran'
- StrongTrump declines to say if Israel will join strikes, vows to 'hit them with force'
- StrongArab Desk reports Trump's full letter to Congress; analyst says Israeli involvement likely
- StrongTrump calls Beirut strike 'insignificant', says deal with Iran close
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