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In an unprecedented collaboration, the US will take part in Israeli exercise simulating a strike on Iran’s nuclear facilities.

In an unprecedented collaboration, the US will take part in Israel’s large-scale exercise simulating a strike on Iran’s nuclear facilities as part of the Chariots of Fire exercise.

This comes as Defense Minister Benny Gantz also warned on Tuesday that Iran is just a “few weeks” from accumulating sufficient fissile material for a bomb.

i24’s Middle East correspondent discusses the significance of the American participation and the message it sends to Iran.