Trump demands Israel and other allies it 'protected' pay back Iran war costs

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US President Donald Trump has said Israel and other countries it 'protected' should reimburse the costs incurred during its war on Iran. In an interview with CBS News aired Sunday, Trump said such countries would 'pay us any and all costs we had for the war'.

WASHINGTON — US President Donald Trump has said Israel and other countries it “protected” should reimburse the costs incurred during its war on Iran.

In an interview with CBS News aired Sunday, Trump said such countries would “pay us any and all costs we had for the war”.

“We’re going to get all that money back,” Trump said. “They’re going to do it, 100 percent. Because without us, they wouldn’t exist.”

For the first time, Trump also explicitly spoke of compensation from Israel, which he said “wouldn’t exist” without US military intervention.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been persistently calling Trump to urge him to resume military action against Iran despite diplomatic efforts to end the conflict, The Financial Times reported on Monday.

“Netanyahu calls him every day [to urge him to resume the war],” a person briefed on the discussions told the British newspaper.

He said figures inside and outside the White House who oppose renewed fighting have been trying to counter Netanyahu’s pressure to resume the war.

The reimbursement demand comes after Trump and his Republican party took a drubbing in midterm elections, which the president has conceded was partly due to public discontent over the Iran war.

Just days before the midterm vote, it emerged the Pentagon's estimate for the total cost of the war had surged to $47 billion. Between February and the start of August, the Iran war had racked up a bill of around $38 billion, according to the Congressional Budget Office. The US used up more than $13 billion in air defense interceptor missiles during this period, the non-partisan agency said.

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