US President Donald Trump said Benjamin Netanyahu would have to accept any deal the US reaches with Iran because the Israeli prime minister “doesn’t call the shots.”
“I call the shots. I call all the shots. He [Netanyahu] doesn’t call the shots,” Trump told The Financial Times on Sunday.
“He won’t have any choice,” the president said.
Trump insisted Iran’s Sunday night missile attack on Israel is “not going to have any impact on the deal.”
“We’ll see how it ends up. But they were attacks that did not kick at all. It’s one of those things that’s been going for 3,000 years, or 47 years, depending on how you count,” he said.
Some context: Trump’s remarks about the Israeli leader come after the US president said last week that he was “perturbed” with Netanyahu over Israel’s plans for military operations in Lebanon as the US was working toward a peace agreement with Iran.
Netanyahu was highly critical of the Iran nuclear deal reached by former President Barack Obama, telling the UN in 2015 that the agreement only rewarded Iran’s “bad behavior.”
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