Merkley: Strikes Didn’t Change Middle East Dynamic, Just Moved Up Timeframe, Israel, Who I Wanted to Stop, Would Have Taken Out Nukes

On Monday’s broadcast of CNN’s “The Source,” Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-OR) said that American strikes on Iran moved up the timeframe for setting back nuclear Iran’s program, but “Israel had made it very clear that, with or without the United States, they could effectively destroy these facilities. They wouldn’t have done it with 30,000-pound bombs, but they expressed great confidence that they could do so. … I don’t think that this has changed the ultimate course of the dynamic.” And also said that he argued President Donald Trump “should use his leverage with Netanyahu to have a ceasefire.”

Merkley said that he thinks a ceasefire is good, “I spent the weekend saying the President should use his leverage with Netanyahu to have a ceasefire.”

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