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US President Donald Trump has reiterated to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that he remains committed to negotiating with Iran before taking any further action.
“Nothing definitive has been achieved,” Trump later wrote on his social media platform, Truth Social, “other than to insist that negotiations with Iran will continue to see if an agreement can be reached. If it can, I have let the Prime Minister know that this will be my preference. If it cannot, we will have to see what the outcome is.”
For his part, the Israeli Prime Minister “emphasized Israel’s security needs,” according to a statement cited by AFP.
Netanyahu and Trump met behind closed doors at the White House on Wednesday, in an attempt by the Israeli leader to influence the US-Iran negotiations taking place in Oman. The Israeli government wants the negotiations to extend beyond the Iranian nuclear program, demanding that Iran also limit its missile arsenal and cease its support for groups hostile to Israel in the region, such as Hamas in Palestine and Hezbollah in Lebanon.
This is the seventh time Netanyahu and Trump have met since the Republican returned to the White House in January 2015. Upon arriving in Washington on Tuesday, Netanyahu met with Trump’s special envoy, Steve Witkoff, and the president’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, who led the delegation that negotiated with the Iranians. On Wednesday, before his meeting with the president, he met with Secretary of State Marco Rubio.
