Netanyahu Was Planning to Reignite Iran War Before Election

His own army chief warned the strike could push back the vote. Trump said no, endorsed him anyway, and his son had already told him the war was wrong.

Benjamin Netanyahu had the army ready to hit Iran on the weekend of Oct. 10. Israel never struck.

The Financial Times reported Wednesday, citing three people familiar with the plan, that the army had drawn up a new target list seventeen days before an election the polls call level: nuclear facilities, regime sites and, for the first time, civilian infrastructure including energy plants. Israel would have hit harder than the U.S. and Israel did in February. One FT source said: "There will either be a deal or an attack."