Report: Trump-Netanyahu Call on Iran Turned Heated; Netanyahu's Office Calls It Fake News

Status: Ynet, citing anonymous sources, reported that a weekend phone call between President Donald Trump and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu about Iran was unusually heated. Netanyahu's office has officially denied that account. The report rests on unnamed sources. A senior Israeli official confirmed that the call took place but rejected the description of it as difficult.

Ynet, in a report by Itamar Eichner, said Trump and Netanyahu spoke by phone over the weekend, in a conversation focused largely on Iran and on disagreements between Jerusalem and Washington over whether to renew the war against the Islamic Republic. Sources familiar with the conversation described it as an unusually difficult and heated exchange, Ynet reported, with one source calling it "a shouting match from hell."

According to that account, the dispute centered on whether and when to resume strikes on Iran. Ynet reported that the Trump administration wants to exhaust the possibility of an agreement with Tehran, while Netanyahu has argued that Iran's nuclear threat cannot be permanently eliminated without the fall of the Iranian regime. Those are reported policy differences; Ynet's description of the call as a shouting match comes from anonymous sources.

The Prime Minister's Office rejected the report, calling it "fake news, complete nonsense," Ynet and Yeshiva World reported. A senior Israeli official confirmed that the call took place but said it was "very much not a difficult conversation," contradicting the other sources' accounts, Ynet reported.

Ynet did not identify the sources who described the call as heated, and the Prime Minister's Office has officially denied that description. AFNS has not independently verified what was said on the call.

Separately, Annahar, citing Channel 12, reported that disagreements between Netanyahu and IDF Chief of Staff Eyal Zamir over military options against Iran have resumed. According to that Channel 12 account, as cited by Annahar, Zamir believes operations the prime minister wants to pursue lack caution and could lead to a confrontation with Iran at a time that, in Zamir's view, requires caution, "especially with the United States not showing any inclination to engage in a new confrontation." That is a Channel 12 report relayed by Annahar, not an official statement from Zamir or the IDF.