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US official says Israel pressing for American strikes on Iran, but Trump 'really does not want to do it'

Senior Israeli officials, including IDF chief Eyal Zamir, who visited Washington over the weekend, have been pushing the US to strike Iran, but US President Donald Trump is reluctant, Axios reports. The report says that Zamir briefed Joint Chiefs chairman Gen. Dan Caine on Israel's offensive and defensive plans in the event of war with Iran. "It's safe to say that nothing came out of that meeting to change his or the president's mind on attacking Iran," Axios quotes a US official as saying, referring to Caine and Trump. "It's really the Israelis who want a strike. The president is just not there," the official says.