Middle East Crisis Iran War

Trump: Netanyahu Knows Who's Boss

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has asked Donald Trump for a meeting at the White House, and it could happen after the NATO summit in Ankara next week, Trump tells Axios.

- We get along very well. He knows who's boss, Trump says.

It would be the first meeting between the two leaders since February, when Netanyahu presented attack plans against Iran in the White House's "situation room."

Behind the scenes, Trump's inner circle has reportedly become increasingly skeptical of Netanyahu in the months since the outbreak of war.

- Many of Trump's closest advisers think "Bibi" has been wrong about everything, a source says.

Report: US Warned Iran That Israel Would Kill Top Officials

The US warned Iran in April that Israel was planning to kill its Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi and Speaker Mohammad Ghalibaf, who was then leading the country's negotiations with the US. This was reported by several high-ranking sources to the New York Times.

The warnings were reportedly made via other countries in the region. The US feared that the sensitive ceasefire negotiations would be disrupted if Israel carried out the targeted killings. The two men were previously considered legitimate targets, but were removed from the list of war targets at Donald Trump's request when negotiations between the US and Iran got underway, according to the Wall Street Journal.

After a meeting with US Vice President JD Vance in Pakistan in April, Mohammad Ghalibaf's plane made an emergency landing in Mashhad in eastern Iran after Iranian intelligence reported a planned Israeli attack. This was stated by Mahdi Mohammadi, an advisor to Ghalibaf, on social media. The delegation then traveled by bus eight hours to Tehran.