The director of the Israeli spy agency Mossad is in Washington Friday for talks with senior Trump administration officials about the war in Iran, according to three sources with knowledge of the matter, Axios reports.
The visit by Roman Gofman, one of Benjamin Netanyahu's closest confidants, comes as the Israeli prime minister is pressing President Trump to resume the war against Iran.
Gofman is meeting with CIA Director John Ratcliffe, the sources said. He is also expected to travel to Miami to meet White House envoy Steve Witkoff, one of the sources said.
Mossad, the CIA and the White House declined to comment.
Trump has so far rejected pressure from Netanyahu to return to combat. The two discussed the Iran war during a Nov. 5 call, per a U.S. official.
Instead, the president has sided with Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the UAE to continue the naval blockade and economic pressure campaign against Iran, while seeing if a deal is possible.
"I could end it immediately. At the request of the nations that I'm looking to protect, we are doing it a little bit longer way, a little bit more civilly," Trump said on Thursday.
"Saudi Arabia has asked me to please just let it be the way it is now for a while, because [Iran is] disintegrating. Qatar, Kuwait, UAE, Bahrain, all of them would much prefer the waiting period."
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