The US president has reportedly urged the Israeli PM not to restart a full-blown war with Iran<\/p>\n
US President Donald Trump threatened to withdraw support for Israel during a tense phone call with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Axios has reported.
\nTrump has held several heated phone conversations with the Israeli prime minister since Iran announced last week that it was suspending talks with the US over repeated Israeli strikes in Lebanon.
\nIran\u2019s conditions for a peace agreement include the cessation of hostilities on \u201call fronts,\u201d including Lebanon, where nearly 3,700 people have been killed since early March, when Israel resumed strikes in response to attacks by Hezbollah.
\nIsrael and Iran exchanged strikes on Sunday and Monday for the first time since a ceasefire was reached in April, following an Israeli strike in Beirut.<\/p>\n
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Axios reported on Monday that Trump said in a phone interview with the outlet that he had warned Netanyahu that \u201cif he went back to war with Iran, he might find himself fighting alone.\u201d Trump previously confirmed reports that he had called Netanyahu \u201cf**king crazy\u201d during an earlier conversation.
\nBBC North America editor Sarah Smith said Trump told her by phone on Monday that he had urged the Israeli leader to \u201cuse common sense,\u201d adding that he was \u201cvery close to signing a very powerful deal\u201d with Iran.
\nMultiple reports said Trump tried to persuade Netanyahu not to retaliate after Iran launched 11 missiles, all of which were intercepted. According to Smith, Trump said Netanyahu told him that Israeli missiles \u201cwere already on the way\u201d by the time they spoke.<\/p>\n
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Iran\u2019s chief negotiator, Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, said the strikes in Lebanon and the naval blockade of Iranian ports made the US and Israel legitimate targets.
\n\u201cThey are neither committed to a ceasefire nor believe in dialogue,\u201d he wrote on X on Sunday.
\nIran has accused the US president of starting the war entirely at Israel\u2019s behest, echoing\u00a0some of Trump\u2019s domestic critics. Trump, however, has argued that he \u201ccalls the shots\u201d and recently said that Israel would have no choice but to accept whatever terms he agreed upon with Iran.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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