Israeli President Herzog: Israel 'not dragging' US into war with Iran

Israeli President Isaac Herzog said that Israel is "not dragging" the U.S. into its warfare with Iran, pushing backmost against increasing fears of a broader determination struggle aft Washington sent an overnight onslaught against 3 large Iranian atomic facilities connected Saturday.

Herzog made the connection during an quality connected CNN’s "State of the Union" with big Kasie Hunt connected Sunday, successful effect to President Donald Trump’s determination to deploy bunker-buster bombs and Tomahawk missiles against Iran’s cardinal atomic sites astatine Fordow, Natanz and Isfahan.

"We made wide passim that we are not dragging America into a war," Herzog said. "We are leaving it to the determination of the President of the United States and his team, due to the fact that it had to bash with America's nationalist information interests, period. We are not intending, and we don't inquire for America present to spell to warfare due to the fact that the Iranians are threatening Israel."

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Israeli President Isaac Herzog says Israel is not dragging the U.S. into war. (AP/Ben Curtis)

The Israeli leader added that the American determination to onslaught Iran's atomic infrastructure was "the close step" for the U.S., describing the Iranian atomic programme arsenic a menace to American and planetary security. 

"The determination was taken due to the fact that the Iranian atomic programme was a wide and contiguous information to the information interests of each the escaped world, particularly the person of the escaped world," Herzog added. "America, arsenic the person of the escaped world, was really astatine hazard from this program, and that is wherefore it was the close measurement to do."

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Herzog said Sunday that President Donald Trump's determination to onslaught Iran's atomic sites was the "right measurement to do." (AP/Getty/Maxar)

Despite Washington's subject involvement, Herzog stressed that present is "the infinitesimal wherever 1 thinks astir diplomacy." He urged that immoderate renewed talks with Iran indispensable "be nuts and bolts and precise clear," citing a past of antecedently failed negotiations owed to what helium described arsenic Iranians "lying constantly."

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Close-up presumption of destroyed gathering astatine the atomic tract successful Isfahan, Iran.  (Satellite representation ©2025 Maxar Technologies)

Secretary of State Marco Rubio besides reiterated Herzog’s connection during an quality connected Fox News' "Sunday Morning Futures" with big Maria Bartiromo, asserting that the U.S. is "not astatine war" with Iran. 

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Rubio added that authorities alteration is "not the goal" and that Washington is inactive offering a diplomatic way forward.