Israel’s Netanyahu urged Trump to hold off on Iran attack, for now: Reports

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu urged US President Donald Trump this week to delay any military strike against Iran, according to US officials.A senior Saudi official told AFP on Thursday that the Kingdom, Qatar and Oman led efforts to talk Trump out of an attack on Iran, fearing “grave blowbacks in the region.”For all the latest headlines, follow our Google News channel online or via the app.Criticism was quickly levied at the US Gulf allies for pushing de-escalation in their own region. Senator Lindsey Graham, a neoconservative American lawmaker who has long been an advocate for regime change and war, went as far as suggesting there would be “dramatic rethinking” on his part regarding the nature of US alliances with “our so-called Arab allies.”However, a senior US official told the New York Times that Netanyahu asked the American president to postpone plans for such an attack.Other US officials later told the Wall Street Journal that Trump was advised against a large-scale