Prime Minister Netanyahu wants to hold a meeting with President Trump in Washington after Trump returns from his visit to Europe on Wednesday, CNN reports, according to Noam Amir (Channel 14). The report follows earlier reports that Netanyahu is pushing for urgent talks as the US-Iran deal nears signature.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is seeking a face-to-face meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump in Washington, timed to follow Trump's return from his European visit on Wednesday, according to a report by CNN cited by Channel 14's Noam Amir on Tuesday evening (23:54 Jerusalem time). The request, which calls for a bilateral meeting in the U.S. capital rather than on the margins of a multilateral summit, represents a new development in the prime minister's efforts to coordinate with the Trump administration as diplomatic momentum toward a U.S.-Iran framework agreement accelerates.
The report builds on earlier dispatches by The Zioneer published on Tuesday evening. At 23:08 Jerusalem, the desk reported, citing an Israeli source speaking to CNN, that Netanyahu was pushing for an urgent meeting with Trump after the G7 summit, potentially as early as the following weekend. A subsequent update at 23:10 Jerusalem added a warning from Iran's Supreme Leader advisor Ali Akbar Velayati that 'the zero hour has arrived, the missiles are in their launch positions.' The current request appears to narrow the venue to Washington and sets a precise timeline — after Trump's Wednesday return — rather than the broader 'after G7' timeframe reported earlier. The source remains the same indirect channel (Israeli source → CNN → Israeli media quoting CNN), with no direct on-record confirmation from either the Prime Minister's Office or the White House.
As The Zioneer has reported in its extensive background coverage of the emerging deal, President Trump suggested on June 11 that the signing could take place in Europe that weekend, with Vice President JD Vance attending. A senior U.S. official told journalist Barak Ravid on June 13 that Trump would convene a Middle East summit in France. These items frame the current request as part of a wider diplomatic push by Jerusalem to secure a face-to-face with Trump before any final terms are set. An earlier background item noted that Trump was expected to spend 'many hours' with Netanyahu in a past meeting, but that was not tied to the current Iran deal timeline.
It remains unconfirmed whether the White House has agreed to the request for a Washington meeting. The precise agenda beyond the Iran deal — such as potential discussions of normalization, security guarantees, or settlement policy — has not been specified. Velayati's 'zero hour' claim, cited in the earlier update, has not been independently verified by Western intelligence or open-source reporting.
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