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    EU Official: Israel Trying to Drag Trump Into War With Iran Before November Election

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    in the past weeks has suffered a series of unexplained incidents at sensitive sites linked to its and nuclear programme. Some of them have been attributed to , which would not publicly confirm or deny its role.

    There are concerns in Europe that israel might be trying to drag the United States into a conflict with Iran before the November general election, an anonymous EU official has told Business Insider.

    The US president, who champions a “maximum pressure” Iran policy and is a staunch Israeli ally, is trailing in the polls behind his rival Joe Biden with less than four months to go until the next election.

    Biden, who was the vice president when the US negotiated the 2015 nuclear deal with Iran, has criticised Trump for quitting the agreement and signalled that he would rejoin it if he gets elected.

    “There would be a lot less appetite for adventures and secret missions to blow up nuclear facilities under a Biden administration,” the EU official noted.

    Blasts and fires with unidentified causes of origin have rocked Iran in the past several weeks. Those included a blaze at a shipyard in Bushehr on 15 July and explosions at an aluminium factory in Lamerd on 14 July, at the uranium enrichment facility in Natanz on 2 July, in a health centre in Tehran on 30 June, and at the military complex in Parchin and the station in Shiraz on 25 June.

    Iranian officials said they…

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