Janet Jalil

So somebody isn't being entirely truthful here.

And for the time being, the Americans have told Israel not to do any more, hit any more economic targets.

So let's see if that sticks.

Yes, because the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu came out yesterday to say that President Trump didn't know about this Israeli attack on the Iranian gas field that sparked this latest escalation, in fact, contradicting his own officials.

It does sound like it, doesn't it?

I mean, I took a call specifically yesterday from an Israeli official to tell me they did know.

They did tell them.

So the longer term picture here is, are they both on the same page as to when this war is going to end?

And I think that Israel has a desire to keep working its way down through a target list in Iran of missile sites and IRGC, Revolutionary Guards commanders, that it wants to eliminate.

Whereas

For the US, time is running out.

Every day that this goes on, it's going to become less and less popular with Donald Trump's MAGA, his Make America Great Again base, which didn't vote him into office to get involved in another Middle Eastern war and certainly not to drive up petrol prices, gas prices at the pump.

We've heard from the Saudi foreign minister that his country is reserving the right to take military action against Iran.

How likely is that, do you think, Frank?

Well, the Saudis have got a powerful air force and, of course, they've got a huge ally in the United States.

They are getting hit almost daily by Iranian ballistic missiles aimed at Prince Sultan Air Base south of Riyadh at a place called Al-Kharij.

And they're getting fed up with this and not being able to retaliate.

But they also know that...

If they were to join in this war, effectively on the side of Israel, that brings two risks.

One, their own population are not going to be happy at them appearing to side with Israel, a country that has been embroiled in the Gaza war since 2023.