JERUSALEM — He offended the last United States president by trying to sink the Iran nuclear deal in Congress, antagonized the countries that had negotiated it, and helped make support for Israel a partisan issue in American politics. For Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel, President Trump’s decision on Tuesday to abandon the 2015 agreement was such a wholesale vindication that he abruptly cut short a trip to Cyprus to be in Israel when it was announced. It would have been unseemly, after all, to gloat while on foreign soil. “Israel fully supports President Trump’s bold decision today to reject the disastrous nuclear deal with the terrorist regime in Iran,” Mr. Netanyahu said moments after Mr. Trump’s remarks. Those attacks have come amid a shadow war in which Iran has used the cover of the Syrian conflict to build a military infrastructure there to confront Israel.

Source: New York Times May 08, 2018 21:38 UTC