For all the talk of the threat Iran posed to Israel and the wider region, Netanyahu never pulled the trigger on a major military operation. Instead, he authorized sporadic high-risk, high-reward operations from Israel’s Mossad spy agency, including the assassination of Iranian nuclear scientists and the stealing of the country’s nuclear archive.

Trump only planned to bomb the enrichment facility in Fordow - but was convinced by Netanyahu and Dermer to target Isfahan, an Israeli official told the Post.