Netanyahu’s office rejects report of fiery Trump call over Iran

Netanyahu’s office has dismissed as “fake news” reports that he and Trump had a “shouting match from hell” over Iran during a weekend phone call.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office has dismissed reports that he and U.S. President Donald Trump clashed over Iran during a weekend phone call, Just the News reports.

Unnamed sources had claimed the two leaders disagreed on how to tackle Iran, with one reportedly describing their conversation as a “shouting match from hell.”

“Fake news, complete nonsense,” the office told Ynet Global, the English-language website of Israeli newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth, which first reported the claim.

Other sources described the call as an “unusually difficult and heated exchange,” in Ynet’s paraphrase, but a senior Israeli official told the newspaper it was “very much not a difficult conversation.”

Netanyahu reportedly tried to convince Trump that the Iranian regime must be toppled, while Trump is seeking a diplomatic agreement with Tehran.

Speaking to reporters on Monday after meeting Qatari Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani over Doha-mediated contacts between Washington and Tehran, Trump said resuming military action “doesn’t seem to be a very necessary thing” but the U.S. is still “locked and loaded.”