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President Trump said Israel’s prime minister would be forced to play ball with Iran after the Islamic Republic launched a missile attack on the Jewish State Sunday — and insisted that he is still the one who “calls the shots.” 

Iran fired at least 10 missiles at Israel on Sunday, hours after the Israeli Defense Forces launched its own attack on a Hezbollah command center in Beirut.

Trump told the Financial Times that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will have to accept any ceasefire deal that the US brokers because he “doesn’t call the shots.”

[Netanyahu] won’t have any choice. I call the shots. I call all the shots. He doesn’t call the shots,” Trump said.


  Trump told The Post Sunday that things are “going well” in ongoing peace talks with Iran. REUTERS Trump told The Post Sunday that things are “going well” in ongoing peace talks with Iran. REUTERS

Trump assured that Sunday’s shake-up, which effectively terminated a delicate ceasefire Israel and Lebanon agreed to just last week, will not have “any impact” on US-Iran negotiations.

“The deal may make it on its own merit, or not, but this will not have any effect on it,” he told the outlet.

Earlier on Sunday, Trump told Fox News that he “wasn’t happy” about Israel’s brazen attack on Beirut after he’d told Netanyahu to stand down. But he recognized that Iran’s latest blow wasn’t “going to help negotiations” either.

“What I would suggest to Iran: You’ve shot your missiles, that’s enough. Get back to the table and make a deal,” Trump told the outlet.

The president also boasted about the power of the US military and the ongoing naval blockade in the Strait of Hormuz, which has choked Iran’s oil-reliant economy.

He told the Financial Times that, if a US-Iran deal fails “on its merits,” then he will consider ordering a commando raid on the Islamic Republic. He explained that the framework of the raid would either look like a military attack or a continuation of the naval blockade, since it “has been probably more powerful than any attack that we ever made on that country.”


  His statement came after Iran launched a missile attack on the Jewish State on Sunday. REUTERS His statement came after Iran launched a missile attack on the Jewish State on Sunday. REUTERS

Trump separately told Axios that he was “calling Netanyahu right now and telling him not to attack Iran in response.”

“Each of them had their fun. If Bibi strikes them back it’s just gonna keep going like the last 47 years, or the last 3,000 years,” Trump said.

Last week, Axios reported that Trump and Netanyahu had a heated, profanity-laden phone call about Israel’s tarnished reputation.

“You’re f–king crazy. You’d be in prison if it weren’t for me. Everybody hates you now. Everybody hates Israel because of this,” Trump said, according to the outlet. 

Trump confirmed the phone call’s existence to the Financial Times and didn’t dispute the way it was characterized. 

When reached by The Post Sunday afternoon, Trump also said in a brief phone interview that “things are going very well.”

Iranian officials, meanwhile, appeared eager to ramp up the firefight with Israel and the US.


  The president says he told Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (pictured) to stand down. POOL/AFP via Getty Images The president says he told Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (pictured) to stand down. POOL/AFP via Getty Images

“Our acceptance of the ceasefire on April 8 was conditional on a ceasefire on ALL fronts; but as always, America and Israel did not adhere to their commitment, they continued the aggression and crimes in Lebanon, and attacked Iranian vessels,” Iran’s military said in a statement shared with regime media on Sunday.

Mohsen Rezaei, an adviser to Iran’s supreme leader, touted the “response” foreign “aggressors” received and promised that Israel would see “a more crushing response and heavier costs” if it retaliates. 

Israel doesn’t appear to be standing down just yet. Brig. Gen. Effie Defrin, a top Israeli military spokesman, said in brief televised remarks that it was approving plans for further action in Lebanon.

Defrin didn’t note any immediate retaliation for Sunday’s strikes, but blasted Iran for committing “a grave mistake.”

Naftali Bennett, Israel’s former prime minister, said that the Jewish State’s response is a “moment of truth” to demonstrate if it “is capable of defending itself.”

“A weak or symbolic response will signal to our enemies that the blood of our citizens has been spilled with impunity; therefore, Israel must act with strength and effectiveness,” he wrote on X.

Before the strikes in Beirut, Iran warned an attack would spark a full-scale war across the Middle East.

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