Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is expected to press Donald Trump to take a hard line in talks with Iran as he makes his seventh visit to the US since the start of the president’s second term.
Netanyahu said on Tuesday that he would present Israel’s “perceptions of the principles in the negotiations” to Trump during their meeting on Wednesday, which would focus “first and foremost” on US discussions with Tehran.
The Trump administration’s renewed efforts to negotiate a deal with Iran on its nuclear programme — and avoid the military strikes that the president has threatened for weeks — have alarmed the Israeli government and Iran hawks in Trump’s Republican Party, who want to see Washington take more aggressive action against the Islamic republic.