Netanyahu hits out at claims he is manipulating | Political News

Israel’s chief has insisted he is not “telling the U.S. president what to do” after Donald Trump expressed frustration at Benjamin Netanyahu just hours before he met with the Israeli chief on Tuesday.

“There is no truth in the claim that Israel is pushing the U.S. in a certain direction on the Iran issue,” Hotovely said.

“The prime minister is not telling the U.S. president what to do and is not pushing him in any direction. Both sides want to prevent Iran from having nuclear weapons. There are many ways to achieve this goal.”

Trump had beforehand voiced frustration over experiences that the Israeli chief meant to temporary him on intelligence concerning Iranian operations at Pickaxe Mountain, a suspected nuclear web site that the U.S. president has repeatedly threatened to strike.

“I know exactly what’s going on at Pickaxe,” Trump told the show, Fox & Friends. He maintained that whatever Iran is doing is “not a big problem” and that “Bibi’s telling me that because he wants me to stay involved.”

“Why do you’ve gotten to announce to the world?” Trump added, seemingly displeased with Netanyahu.

AP has reported that an Israeli official revealed that Netanyahu reaffirmed to Trump during their assembly that Israel would continue sharing intelligence with the U.S., while also acknowledging that Washington operates on its own schedule and must weigh its own concerns, including the potential impression on other regional allies ought to the U.S. select to pursue navy escalation.

Meanwhile, Netanyahu described his Tuesday assembly with Trump as “excellent”. It was their first sit-down since launching a joint battle against Iran, and it supplied the Israeli chief a probability to clean issues over with his key ally.

Sources close to the president told Axios that “bad blood and frustration” between the 2 leaders has develop into so dangerous that they’re now “suspicious of each other’s intentions”.

Despite these reporters, the almost an hour-and-a-half assembly was “positive and productive,” according to White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt. The president also spoke positively of the talks, writing in a social media posting a number of hours after that it was a “very good meeting” where “many important subjects were discussed”.​

Later on Tuesday night time, the U.S. Central Command announced it had repelled a new Iranian missile assault, which marked an end to the pause in preventing. They said Iran had launched a number of ballistic missiles “in an attempted surprise attack on U.S. forces based in the Middle East”, but added that all missiles had been intercepted.