{"id":50928,"date":"2026-05-22T01:31:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T01:31:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/world\/trump-and-netanyahu-diverge-on-military-operation-against-iran-cnn\/"},"modified":"2026-05-22T01:31:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T01:31:11","slug":"trump-and-netanyahu-diverge-on-military-operation-against-iran-cnn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/world\/trump-and-netanyahu-diverge-on-military-operation-against-iran-cnn\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump and Netanyahu diverge on military operation against Iran &#8211; CNN"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. President Donald Trump held a tense conversation with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, which revealed their differing views on how to proceed with the war against Iran. This was reported by CNN, citing an unnamed American official, according to UNN.<\/p>\n<h2>Details<\/h2>\n<p>It is noted that this was not their first conversation in recent days\u2014for instance, when the two leaders spoke on Sunday, Trump indicated that he would likely continue new targeted attacks on Iran early in the week.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>But approximately 24 hours after that first conversation, Trump announced he was halting the strikes, which he said had been planned for Tuesday, at the request of Gulf allies: Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates. Since then, the Gulf nations have been in close contact with the White House and Pakistani mediators, working on a framework that could facilitate diplomatic negotiations,<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; the publication quotes the source.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&quot;Dialogue does not mean surrender&quot; \u2014 Iran&#039;s President declares refusal to cede &quot;the nation&#039;s rights&quot;18.05.26, 23:07 \u2022 4404 views<\/p>\n<p>According to the publication&#039;s sources in the U.S. and Israel, the ongoing negotiations have frustrated the Israeli Prime Minister, who has long advocated for a more aggressive approach in relations with Tehran: Netanyahu argued that the delay only benefits the Iranians.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Netanyahu expressed his frustration on Tuesday, telling Trump that he believed postponing the expected attacks was a mistake and that the president should proceed with the plan as scheduled,<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; an unnamed American official told the media.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Vance stated that transferring Iran&#039;s enriched uranium to Russia is not part of U.S. plans20.05.26, 12:09 \u2022 3340 views<\/p>\n<p>At the same time, an Israeli source told the publication that Netanyahu is skeptical that the negotiations will lead to a deal, particularly because to date, Iran refuses to give up its enriched uranium.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>During the hour-long conversation, Netanyahu insisted on resuming military actions. The divergence was evident: Trump wants to see if a deal can be reached, but Netanyahu expected something else,<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; the publication quotes the Israeli official.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Trump presented with military options regarding Iran &#8211; Axios20.05.26, 12:52 \u2022 3674 views<\/p>\n<p>The authors add that on Thursday, when asked by journalists whether Iran could keep its highly enriched uranium, Trump replied: &quot;We&#039;re going to get the highly enriched uranium. We don&#039;t need it, we don&#039;t want it. We&#039;ll probably destroy it after we get it, but we&#039;re not going to let them have it.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Within the upper echelons of the Israeli government, there is a strong desire to resume military actions, and there is growing frustration that Trump continues to allow what they call Iran&#039;s diplomatic stalling. But Netanyahu&#039;s frustration with the U.S. position\u2014and specifically with Trump&#039;s threats that ultimately led to the pause\u2014is not entirely new. U.S. officials have acknowledged in the past that U.S. and Israeli goals regarding the war differ,&quot; the publication concludes.<\/p>\n<h2>Recall<\/h2>\n<p>U.S. President Donald Trump stated on Wednesday that the United States is ready to continue attacks on Tehran if Iran does not agree to a peace deal, but suggested waiting a few days to &quot;get the right answers.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Trump announced the final stage of negotiations with Iran and warned of &quot;some unpleasant things&quot;20.05.26, 23:41 \u2022 12281 view<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. President Donald Trump held a tense conversation with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, which revealed their differing views on how to proceed with the war against Iran. This was reported by CNN, citing an unnamed American official, according to UNN. Details It is noted that this was not their first conversation in recent days\u2014for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":50929,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-50928","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50928","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50928"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50928\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}