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Financial Times: Netanyahu was ready to strike Iran, Trump stopped him

39 outlets · 40 articles · Greek title: Financial Times: Νετανιάχου ήταν έτοιμος να χτυπήσει το Ιράν, τον σταμάτησε ο Τραμπ

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What happened

What the sources report

The Israeli military had prepared a multi-day bombing campaign for the weekend of October 10, targeting political infrastructure, nuclear facilities and regime targets, according to three people familiar with the matter. ERT News

The operation did not go ahead, with the sources citing President Donald Trump's opposition to resuming the conflict before the US midterm elections on November 3. ERT News

Both Trump and Netanyahu continue to threaten a new attack on Iran, saying the US and Israel must "finish" the job against the regime. ERT News

White House deputy press secretary Anna Kelly told the FT that the US will not attack Iran before the midterm elections. ERT News

US Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth travelled to Israel on Monday and held talks with Netanyahu, according to an Israeli official. ERT News

Where they differ

Documento writes that one source said it is "not an unlikely scenario" that attacks could resume in the coming weeks. Documento

ERT News reports the phrasing "not an absurd scenario". ERT News

To Vima writes that a scenario of joint strikes is "absolutely possible". To Vima

Machine-translated by AI (Claude) from our Greek summary, which AI wrote from the outlets’ articles and which a person checks by sampling. It may contain errors; check the sources.

How each side headlined it

Each outlet’s first headline, grouped by its published political lean. Headlines are the outlets’ own, in Greek.

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