Trump tells Netanyahu not to strike Iran

President Trump told Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Sunday not to retaliate against https://www.axios.com/2026/06/07/iran-israel-missiles-us-tehran-negotiations-ceasefire-risk" target="_blank">Iran's missile attack and allow more time for diplomacy, according to a senior U.S. official and an Israeli source familiar with details of the call.

Why it matters: https://www.axios.com/politics-policy/donald-trump" target="_blank">Trump's effort to restrain an Israeli response signals his administration's push to keep escalating Israel-Iran tensions from derailing ongoing U.S. negotiations with Tehran.

State of play: Trump https://www.ft.com/content/a0ce59f9-fbde-49e8-9158-fba3d4079859" target="_blank">told Axios before the call that he planned to urge Netanyahu not to retaliate against Iran's missile attack, which Tehran said was a response to an Israeli strike in Beirut earlier Sunday.

• The senior U.S. official said the Trump administration didn't give a "green light" to the Israeli strike in Beirut.

Behind the scenes: Trump told Netanyahu during the call to hold off because "we are close to doing something good in terms of a deal," according to the U.S. official.

• Netanyahu pushed back but ultimately "pseudo agreed" to stand down, the official said.
• The official said Sunday's call was calmer than last week's https://www.axios.com/2026/06/01/trump-netanyahu-israel-lebanon-call" target="_blank">tense exchange between the leaders and that Trump did not raise his voice at Netanyahu.
• "We think the president bought a little bit of time.

  He is pretty adamant that we are close to a deal with Iran.

  I don't think anything is imminent in terms of an Israeli strike," the U.S. official said.

• "We are in a moment in time —  that why jeopardize a potential deal when you are in the fourth quarter.

  The President thinks that we have been in this thing for three months — now is the time to end this thing," the U.S. official added.

What he's saying: Trump https://www.ft.com/content/a0ce59f9-fbde-49e8-9158-fba3d4079859" target="_blank">told the Financial Times that Netanyahu "won't have any choice" but to accept any deal the U.S. secures from negotiations with Iran.

• "I call the shots.

  I call all the shots.

  He doesn't call the shots," Trump said of Netanyahu.

Go deeper: https://www.axios.com/2026/06/07/israel-strikes-lebanon-beirut-iran-response-trump" target="_blank">Israel strikes Beirut after Hezbollah attack

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