The fallout from the Donald Trump ending the Iran nuclear deal began swiftly.

According to BBC:

“Israel says it has struck almost all of Iran’s military infrastructure inside Syria in its biggest assault since the start of the civil war there.”

NPR adds:

“Israeli warplanes hit the rocket launcher that fired the barrage at its troops as well as dozens of other targets in Syria, including Iranian military and intelligence sites. It was not immediately clear if anyone was killed in the strikes, but The Jerusalem Post reports 23 dead.

The retaliatory strikes came after the Israeli military says Iranian forces fired 20 rockets toward Israeli military posts near the Syrian border, but none hit their mark, according to NPR’s Daniel Estrin, who reports from Jerusalem.”

An op-ed in the Israeli paper Haaretz says:

“Donald Trump Just Put Israel in Immediate Danger.

Netanyahu has convinced Trump that leaving the Iran deal protects Israel. But the U.S. walk out means a full-on Israel-Iran war in Syria now becomes far more likely.”

On the world stage, most leaders disagreed with wth Trump’s decision to pull out of the Iran deal, and that includes German Chancellor Angela Merkel. Reuters reports:

“Merkel said that many of the global conflicts today were flaring on the doorstep of Europe.

‘And it is no longer the case that the United States of America will simply protect us. Instead, Europe has to take its destiny into its own hands. That is the task for the future.’

[French President Emmanuel] Macron echoed the call to flesh out Europe’s common foreign and defence policy. ‘We made the choice to build peace in the Middle East. Other powers … haven’t kept their word,’ Macron said, without naming a country directly.”