Here is another interesting analysis by Alex Krainer. Basically that the US and Iran were working behind the scenes and everything is intentional trash talk on both sides, and used by Trump to expose the Israelis and remove all the pressure the neocons were putting on him.
He let them go ahead and get exposed, and he knew that Israel was only doing this to get the US involved, so he always planned a fake involvement negotiated with Iran in advance.
He even postulates that it was the US that gave Iran those terabytes of information on the Isreali nuclear program in advance to give them the ability to neutralize the Samson option if it came to it because that was the only card Israel could play.
His basic thought was that even Trump could not be so incredibly stupid to think the US getting involved would be a good idea, and the Arab states would have been raising a lot more hell if they thought the attack was real. He said it was also a stealth message to the Chinese that the US can be dealt with and they are moving away from the EU / UK / Israel axis.
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Again could be wishful thinking, but does explain a lot that appears to be inexplicable at surface level.
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However interesting that sounds, it’s hardly unlikely that Trump or anyone else from the US would work with Iran behind Israel’s back. There is chance for some unspoken unofficial mutual understanding (not agreement) of some people in the US and some people in Iran in the style of “lets try to solve this, before lunatics blow everything up”, but nothing more than that. US is too much under the paws of the same groups as Israel that something like that could be even possible.
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