Jeff Merkley: ‘Israel Fiercely Opposed Working out in a Peaceful Fashion’

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MERKLEY: “Israel fiercely opposed working out in a peaceful fashion, the deflation and diminishment of Iran's program. They constantly strive to say they wanted the military action. It will be interesting to see what American weapons were used in this strike. It's already been conveyed that our planes were not used, but I imagine some of the bombs were ours. I don't know if any of our American bunker-busting bombs were used, which are much larger, and take a larger plane to carry. But it's hard to imagine a situation, given our close coordination and intelligence with Israel, that we didn't have some -- a pretty thorough sense. And just as you heard from your expert, it appears that the United States was alerting our allies, in the region, about the coming strike. So, we certainly had a fair amount of information.”