Trump Says Netanyahu ‘Won’t Have Any Choice’ But To Accept US-Negotiated Deal

00:41 8.6.2026

US President Donald Trump said Israeli ⁠Prime ⁠Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will have ⁠no choice but to accept whatever peace ⁠deal Washington negotiates with Tehran, according to an interview in The Financial Times.

“He won’t have ⁠any choice,” Trump was quoted as saying in the interview.

“I call the shots. I call all the shots. He doesn’t call the shots.” Trump said before he spoke by phone on June 7 with Netanyahu and urged the Israeli leader not to retaliate after the latest Iranian missile launches.

Trump said Iran’s strikes did not affect the current negotiations with Tehran and that “the deal is going on.”

Trump earlier said a deal with Tehran to turn a cease-fire into a peace settlement is still “very close,” even after Iran launched its first wave of air strikes against Israel since the fragile April truce took effect.

Trump told Fox News in an interview that he was “not happy” about the Israeli attacks before being quoted by media outlet Axios that the Iranian strikes “didn’t hit anyone. I hope Israel doesn’t respond.”

“We’re very close. I would say an agreement would be signed on Monday, Tuesday or Wednesday of this coming week. And now this takes place,” Trump told Fox, adding Iran needs to “get back to the table and make a deal.”

Ahead of the phone call between Trump and Netanyahu, the US president said he would tell the Israeli leader not to retaliate for the June 7 Iranian attacks.

“I am going to call Bibi right now and tell him not to retaliate,” Trump was quoted as saying by Axios global affairs correspondent Barak Ravid in a phone interview, using the Israeli leader’s nickname.

With reporting by the Financial Times

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