Sen. Van Hollen: Netanyahu’s Plan All Along Was to Drag the United States into a War with Iran

SIDNER: “You said this week that Prime Minister Netanyahu has outsmarted President Trump. How so?”
Netanyahu: “Well, because Prime Minister Netanyahu has always wanted to drag the United States into a war with Iran. Remember, Prime Minister Netanyahu was a big cheerleader for the war in Iraq. And many people believed that would be ‘a cakewalk.’ The Bush Administration folks thought that would be over in a very short period of time. This is also why Prime Minister Netanyahu tried to sabotage the JCPOA when President Obama was in office. His goals have always been to take military action against Iran. And Donald Trump ran on a platform of being the guy who was going to end the wars. He was going to end the war in Gaza, end the war in Ukraine, not start wars. And so my view is that Prime Minister Netanyahu was on the verge, anyway, of getting Donald Trump to do what he‘s wanted to do all along, which is drag the United States into a war with Iran.”