US President Donald Trump had a candid phone call with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Saturday about the state of US negotiations with Iran and how quickly to return to combat, Axios reports, citing an Israeli and a US source.
Axios cited the sources as saying Netanyahu is pressing Trump to strike Iran immediately after Tuesday's midterm elections, but Trump, for now, wants to let negotiations play out, a strategy Netanyahu is concerned about.
The Israeli source described the call as "tough," while the US source called it "direct."
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Saturday that Trump had not decided whether to launch further strikes against Iran and preferred a diplomatic solution.
"He hasn't made a decision. I have no announcement in that regard with you today, and nor do we take any of it lightly," Rubio told reporters in Atlanta.
Trump told reporters Saturday that negotiations with Iran were "going fine" and that he was not "in much of a hurry," but said the United States still needed to "take care" of one or two Iranian nuclear sites.
"We can do that in 10 minutes. We have that planned. You can look at Pickaxe Mountain. We need to take care of that. We can do that very quickly," Trump said, referring to a suspected nuclear facility built into a mountain.
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