Reports suggesting a rift between Israel and the United States ahead of Israel’s strike on Iran were actually part of a coordinated deception campaign, according to Raja News, an Iranian outlet affiliated with intelligence sources in the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.

The outlet claimed that widespread reports of tensions between U.S. President Donald Trump and Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu in the hours before the attack were intended to lower Tehran’s guard and create the impression that military action was either off the table or had been postponed.

According to Raja News, media channels were flooded with reports on Sunday that portrayed Trump as opposing an Israeli retaliatory strike and that Israel had canceled plans to strike back or, at the very least, postponed them. The site quotes Trump’s statement that “the decision is in my hands,” and Israeli reports claiming that Netanyahu was forced to comply with Trump’s demands.

However, according to Raja News, all of this was part of a “big lie” and a “tactical deception.” It claimed that the apparent disagreement between Washington and Jerusalem was designed to give Iranian decision-makers a false sense of security before the attack.

The outlet described the move as a classic “good cop, bad cop” strategy, with Trump playing the role of the “good cop,” calming the arena and presenting himself as someone restraining Israel, while Netanyahu maintained a low profile until the operation was launched.

The outlet also slammed Iranian reformist media organizations for embracing the narrative of a growing U.S.-Israeli divide. According to Raja News, those outlets inadvertently helped advance the psychological operation and became, in its words, “foot soldiers of the enemy in the war of consciousness.”

The report concluded that the IDF’s strikes serve as further evidence that Israel and the United States are operating in full coordination against Iran.

“The United States and Israel are two sides of the same coin,” the report asserts.

(YWN Israel Desk—Jerusalem)