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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Donald Trump vetoed an Israeli program successful caller days to kill Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, 2 U.S. officials told Reuters connected Sunday.
"Have the Iranians killed an American yet? No. Until they bash we're not adjacent talking astir going aft the governmental leadership," said 1 of the sources, a elder U.S. medication official.
The officials, speaking connected information of anonymity, said apical U.S. officials person been successful changeless communications with Israeli officials successful the days since Israel launched a monolithic onslaught on Iran in a bid to halt its atomic program.
They said the Israelis reported that they had an accidental to termination the top Iranian leader, but Trump waved them disconnected of the plan.
The officials would not accidental whether Trump himself delivered the message. But Trump has been successful predominant communications with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
When asked astir Reuters report, Netanyahu, successful an interrogation connected Sunday with Fox News Channel's "Special Report With Bret Baier," said: "There's truthful galore mendacious reports of conversations that ne'er happened, and I'm not going to get into that."
"But I tin archer you, I deliberation that we bash what we request to do, we'll bash what we request to do. And I deliberation the United States knows what is bully for the United States," Netanyahu said.
Trump has been holding retired anticipation for a resumption of U.S.-Iranian negotiations implicit Tehran's atomic program. Talks that had been scheduled for Sunday successful Oman were canceled arsenic a effect of the strikes.
Trump told Reuters connected Friday that "we knew everything" about the Israeli strikes.
