Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu clashed with Donald Trump in a furious phone call, disagreeing on the way forward in the Iran war. Netanyahu wants to resume military strikes, while Trump wants to push harder for an agreement.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu clashed with Donald Trump in a furious phone call that left the Israeli leader with his 'hair on fire,' a source has revealed.
On Tuesday evening, the two leaders held a difficult and lengthy phone call where they disagreed on the way forward in the Iran war. Netanyahu increasingly doubts further negotiations with Tehran will yield a peace deal and wants to resume military strikes, according to Israel's Channel 12. Trump, meanwhile, wants to push harder for an agreement in which Iran abandons its nuclear weapons program before any return to war.
One source told Axios that Israel's ambassador to Washington had informed US lawmakers that Netanyahu was concerned about the call, claiming the PM's 'hair was on fire' following the tense conversation.
'Bibi is always concerned,' another source said, adding that the Israeli leader has been worried in the past during previous negotiation stages. Trump stated he is ready to restart the war if negotiations collapse, but he remains confident an agreement will be reached. Speaking on Wednesday at the Coast Guard Academy, he said: 'The only question is do we go and finish it up or are they gonna be signing a document. Let's see what happens.
' Trump claimed that Netanyahu 'will do whatever I want him to do' on Iran, though adding that they had a good relationship. An oil tanker burns after being hit by an Iranian strike in the ship-to-ship transfer zone at Khor al-Zubair port near Basra, Iraq on March 11.
The discussion between the pair came hours after the New York Times revealed that Israel, with Trump's approval, went into the war with an 'audacious' plan to install hardline former president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as Iran's new leader after Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was killed in the opening strikes. However, the plot collapsed on day one when Ahmadinejad was wounded by an Israeli strike on his Tehran home meant to free him from house arrest, and he hasn't been seen since.
Ahmadinejad, who had fallen out with the Ayatollah, was known during his 2005 to 2013 presidency for calling to 'wipe Israel off the map.
' He also backed Tehran's nuclear program, and violently crushed civilian dissent. On Wednesday, Iran's foreign ministry said that negotiations were ongoing 'based on Iran's 14-point proposal,' and that Pakistan's interior minister was in Tehran to help the mediation. The ministry said that in order for agreements to be made, the US would have to end its 'piracy' against Iranian ships and agree to release frozen funds, while Israel would have to end its war in Lebanon.
Mediators including Pakistan, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Egypt have been attempting to narrow the gaps in the proposal, sources told Axios. However it remains unclear whether Iranians will shift their position over their nuclear program. On Wednesday, Iran's Revolutionary Guards warned that the Middle East war will extend beyond the region if the US and Israel resume attacks on the Islamic republic.
'If the aggression against Iran is repeated, the promised regional war will this time spread far beyond the region, and our devastating blows will crush you,' the Guards said in a statement on their website Sepah News. The IRGC also warned that Iran had not yet used 'all the capabilities of the Islamic Revolution' against the West.
The threat came after Trump claimed on Tuesday that Iran's leaders are 'begging' for a deal, adding that a new US attack would happen in coming days if no agreement was reached.
'You know how it is to negotiate with a country where you're beating them badly. They come to the table, they're begging to make a deal,' he said.
'I hope we don't have to do the war, but we may have to give them another big hit. I'm not sure yet.
' Trump made his comments a day after saying he had paused a planned resumption of hostilities following a new proposal by Tehran to end the conflict. 'I was an hour away from making the decision to go today,' Trump told reporters at the White House on Tuesday. Iran's army spokesman Mohammad Akraminia warned the Islamic republic would 'open new fronts against' the US if it resumed its attacks.
He added that Iran's military had used the ceasefire as an opportunity 'to strengthen its combat capabilitie
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