Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Saturday that Israel had chosen the targets it attacked in Iran based on its national interests, not according to what was dictated by the United States.
Netanyahu's office issued the statement in response to what it referred to as a "completely false" local television report that Israel had avoided striking Iranian gas and oil facilities because of US pressure.
"Israel chose in advance the attack targets according to its national interests and not according to American dictates. So it was, and so it will be," his office said.
US President Joe Biden said Saturday that he got a head’s up from Israel before the strikes on Iran.
“Looks like they didn’t hit anything but military targets,” he told reporters in Philadelphia, where he was en route to a campaign event in Pittsburgh.
Biden said he had just finished a call with intelligence officials. “I hope this is the end,” he said.
The Israeli military said its aircraft targeted facilities that Iran used to make the missiles fired at Israel as well as surface-to-air missile sites.
