{"id":493131,"date":"2026-06-15T01:14:13","date_gmt":"2026-06-15T01:14:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/493131\/"},"modified":"2026-06-15T01:14:13","modified_gmt":"2026-06-15T01:14:13","slug":"trump-netanyahu-very-difficult-should-be-very-thankful-for-iran-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/493131\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump: Netanyahu \u2018very difficult,\u2019 should be ‘very thankful’ for Iran deal"},"content":{"rendered":"

U.S. President Donald Trump<\/a> sharply criticized Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in an interview with The New York Times on Monday, saying the Israeli leader \u201cshould be very thankful\u201d for the emerging agreement with Iran and claiming his administration had saved Israel from nuclear destruction.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s a very difficult guy,\u201d Trump said of Netanyahu, \u201cand to be honest with you, he should be very thankful to us for doing this. Because if Iran had a nuclear weapon, Israel wouldn\u2019t be around for two hours.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Speaking earlier to Fox News, Trump said he told Netanyahu after the Beirut strike: \u201cWhat the f**k are you doing?\u201d Axios later reported that Trump said the strike delayed the signing of the U.S.-Iran agreement by several hours, though the deal remained on track.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is so bad \u2014 I couldn’t believe it. An hour before we are supposed to sign the deal,\u201d Trump said. He acknowledged that Hezbollah had attacked Israel first, but stressed that no one was killed and no serious damage was caused. \u201cWhy did Bibi have to do a fucking attack? I was so pissed off. I let him know. He has no fucking judgement.\u201d<\/p>\n

Trump also wrote that the Beirut strike \u201cshould not have happened,\u201d adding that Israel had the right to defend itself but that \u201call sides should stand down\u201d because the United States was close to a deal \u201cthat will bring peace to the region, including to Lebanon.\u201d<\/p>\n

In the New York Times interview, Trump said the agreement would make the Strait of Hormuz \u201cpermanently toll free,\u201d though the text has not been published and the paper reported that the memorandum only suspends tolls for 60 days. He warned that if Iran failed to reach a final nuclear agreement, he could restart military attacks on Tehran or make the United States \u201cthe guardian of the Middle East\u201d in return for 20% of regional revenues.<\/p>\n

Israel has said it is not a party to the U.S.-Iran deal, and officials in Jerusalem fear it could restrict the IDF\u2019s freedom of action against Hezbollah in Lebanon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"U.S. President Donald Trump sharply criticized Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in an interview with The New York Times…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":332794,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[85,46,43],"class_list":["post-493131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=493131"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493131\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/332794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=493131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=493131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=493131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}