We've assumed a bunch of reasons for the US getting involved, so perhaps this one is worth discussing. Granted, there's every chance that it could be dribble.
Does sound like dribble to be honest. I'm not fan of the state of Israel under it's present government, but I don't think Israel would be crazy enough to use a nuke. Israel conducting an unprovoked nuclear strike on Iran would render them international pariah's on the world stage, any sort of sympathy the world had for them over the holocaust would evaporate, you could expect a permanent hostile stance towards them from all their Gulf neighbours and probably the end of trade between Israel and the EU, Israel's largest trade partner and hey could possibly be heavily sanctioned as well. You could expect a significant shift of public opinion against Israel in the US as well, even the US possibly would have to turn its back on Israel. In addition you would get an extreme rise of antisemitism globally. It simply far too big a gamble for Israel to have ever taken, unless they had absolute proof of some sort of imminent major attack attack on them by Iran was forthcoming, something such a nuclear/biological/chemical attack, a more regular attack such as with missiles, drones or attacks by Iran's proxies would not have warranted a pre-emptive nuclear strike.
Israel warned the US it would attack Iran. And the warning came with a note that said "If our airforce can't acheive the goal then we will look at the nuclear option." Trump had to decide between a potential nuclear action in the ME and assisting Isreal to eliminate the threat to a pre-determined degree.
Even the phrasing of that doesn't make sense. Wouldn't that leave the door open for America to stay out of the initial Israel strikes against Iran and wait to see what the results where before deciding to join Israel or not. It's not like Israel would nuke Iran without giving the US prior warning. Secondly even with the US joining the campaign, there was no guarantee the US could actually destroyed Iran's nuclear program either, as from what I've seen most analysts seem to think without boots on the ground the US can only set the program back in time, that can't wipe it out completely and Israel knows that.
News has come out of the White House that Trump apparently had certiied credible evidence that Iran were planning a direct attack against the US, which is why Trump acted and did what he did.
Absolute tosh. Iran has never actually directly attacked the mainland United States before. Why would they do it now when they American's had a carrier task force off their coast, it would just bring hellfire down on them. American intelligence services indicated there was no imminent threat to the US from Iran. There was no intelligence from other allied countries that showed an imminent threat to the US either. Numerous American politicians who have partook in intelligence briefings since the operation began have stated no intelligence was presented that indicated there was any threat posed to the US by Iran. Then we have the fact that Trump is one of the worlds biggest liars, he lies and insane amount and just makes stuff up.
Just take for example what he said the other day when a journalist asked him about the bombing of the girls school in Iran, the journalist said it certainly seemed like the United States was responsible as the weapon that hit the school was identified via video footage as a Tomahawk cruise missile. Trump responded that Iran has some Tomahawk missiles. This is a f**king mental statement. The ramifications of that being true is either Iran or some other actor was able to steal Tomahawk cruise missiles form the US or one of it's three allies that use them (the UK, Netherlands and Australia) or that one of those allied countries gave Iran Tomahawk missiles or they gave them to someone else who subsequently gave them Iran. Scenario one is that a massive and unpresented security breach has occurred and scenario two is the US states has been betrayed by an Allied nation in the most serious manner. Now if either such scenario occurred, it would be major news, US intelligence services would be going hell for leather trying to discover what happened, politicians on both sides of the isle would be demanding to know what happened, when did it happen, how did it happen, under who's watch did it happen. But what do we actually get in response to his claims, absolutely zero, nothing, because the US intelligence services and all the politicians know it's complete bullshit. Everyone and their dog knows, its nonsense.
We will never ever know the true extent or the veracity of this top secret information, but that is what is getting said.
That is present without evidence can be dismissed without evidence. You once again demonstrate your complete inability to do any sort of critical thinking and are just wedded to political ideology.