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War on Iran set to top the agenda at Trump-Netanyahu meeting

Netanyahu is going to spend the night at the Blair House, which is a very short walk from the front gate of the White House.

Protesters are gathering there to express their anger at Netanyahu for what happened in Gaza as well as in the ongoing war on Iran.

The meeting between Trump and Netanyahu is not expected to be public. What is interesting is that during the peace talks with Iran, Israel – which is the only country that joined the US in attacking Iran – was not involved.

There are many in Israel who believe that the US should not come close to making a deal – in fact, that they should resume the war – and there are certainly plenty of people in Washington, DC, who would agree with that.

Now, Trump has expressed his frustration with Netanyahu and has said several times that he feels the Israeli leader is not seeing the big picture. And sometimes you’re not sure whether both men are on the same page or whether they are diametrically opposed to one another.

So it will be interesting to see if we get any readout from either side after that meeting.

Of course, there is also the added issue of the US selling aircraft to Turkiye. Netanyahu doesn’t want that to happen.

Trump was asked about it in the last few hours, and he said we will sell to whoever he wants. So it could be a very interesting meeting at the White House on Tuesday.

On December 2025, Netanyahu vowed to attack Iran in 2026 again. That was on February 28, 2026.

During a phone call, Netanyahu managed to lure Trump in his resumption of the preemptive 12-day war on Iran of June 2025.

Netanyahu promised Trump that the war will cause the Iranian regime to collapse. That's where "regime change" and the Israeli launched campaign to let the global opinion believe that the war is about the January 2026 protest crackdown,  have their roots.

So, it is the US as the only country that joined the Israeli war.

Netanyahu likely to press Trump for ‘regime change again’ in Iran

Alex Vatanka at the Middle East Institute says that Netanyahu is likely to try and “sell the idea of regime change again in Tehran” when he meets Trump at the White House on Tuesday.

But, “I don’t think it will go down well with President Trump because he doesn’t want to do that”, Vatanka said. “Politically, in the US, this war is hugely unpopular, so it remains to be seen what Prime Minister Netanyahu gets out of this meeting.”

He added that previous meetings between Trump and Netanyahu in Washington, DC, have often preceded a flare-up in tensions with Iran, and it remains to be seen whether this one breaks that pattern.

Vatanka also said that Israelis are still unhappy with the Trump administration about the memorandum of understanding agreed with Tehran, because they “have a different sense of threat perception when it comes to Iran”.

Israeli officials will want Netanyahu to continue to press Trump on Iran’s ballistic missile and nuclear programs, he said.

“The Trump administration’s counter to that is there is only so much the US can do militarily unless they decide to go in and occupy Iran, and this is something nobody really takes seriously,” he added.

Just 1 in 3 Americans support US-Israel war on Iran, poll suggests

An Ipsos-Reuters survey suggests only one in three Americans supports the war on Iran, with most respondents saying Trump has failed to explain his goals.

The figure marks the lowest rating in a Reuters-Ipsos poll since the early days of the conflict. The latest survey was conducted from July 24 to 26.

It said Trump’s approval was at 37 percent, up three points from last month when his rating tied the lowest of his presidency.

Israel admits US bombers used its airbases to attack Iran

Israel’s defense minister says US warplanes took off from Israeli bases to carry out air strikes on Iran in recent weeks.

“They [Iranians] know that American aircraft are taking off from here and refueling aircraft are taking off from here to strike,” Israel Katz told Channel 14.

“The Iranians have been firing at everything apart from one country, the state of Israel,” he added.

Katz’s remarks come amid regional calm since Friday after the US and Iran halted attacks on each other.

Following escalation in mid-July, Tehran concentrated its attacks on Jordan, Bahrain and Kuwait.

Successive Israeli governments pushed US and Iran into confrontation

As Netanyahu prepares to meet Trump, there is good reason to expect he will use the meeting to discourage any move towards ending hostilities in the Gulf. This expectation is grounded in a historical record spanning more than five decades.

Declassified intelligence, memoirs by senior American officials, investigative reporting and academic scholarship further reinforce this assessment.

Taken together, these sources point to a recurring pattern: Successive Israeli governments, often with the support of elements within the country’s security establishment, have repeatedly sought to obstruct efforts to end regional conflicts or attempts to manage tensions between the US and Iran.

Netanyahu, Trump likely to frame talks as part of broader strategy on war in Iran

President Donald Trump and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will be having their first face-to-face meeting today since the US-Israeli war on Iran began.

We’re expecting this meeting to be framed as part of a larger, broader strategy than simply a discussion about where the two countries are headed regarding the war.

The Trump administration is largely looking to continue its military and economic pressure on Iran, while also trying to avoid the type of spillover scenario that could drag the wider region into conflict.

Therefore, the two will likely also focus on Lebanon and build on the conversations Trump and his Lebanese counterpart, Joseph Aoun, had just last week at the White House.

We also expect Netanyahu and Trump to discuss the Abraham Accords, as normalization with Israel remains a high priority for the US president. Just in the last week alone, Saudi Arabia has become a central focus of discussions regarding the accords.

The Saudis maintain Palestinian statehood remains a central pillar of normalization with Israel, so we’re going to be paying particularly close attention to whether or not that is brought up during this meeting.

This meeting is particularly important to Netanyahu, given that his relationship with Washington is a major factor in terms of his political survivability ahead of Israel’s October elections.

Israel’s PM Netanyahu arrives at the White House

The Israeli leader has arrived at the White House where he is expected to hold a closed-door meeting in the Oval Office with US President Donald Trump.

It’s the first time the two leaders are meeting since the US-Israel war on Iran began in February 28. The conflict is likely to top the agenda, alongside Israel’s war on Lebanon and the disarmament of Hezbollah.

The visit comes at a time when Netanyahu is increasingly unpopular at home and abroad, and as relations with Trump have reportedly strained.

The US and Iran have paused tit-for-tat military strikes and restarted peace negotiations.

What’s on the Netanyahu-Trump agenda?

The ongoing meeting at the Oval Office is closed to reporters and an agenda was not published.

However, Israel’s envoy to the UN Danny Danon told reporters ahead of Netanyahu’s arrival at the White House that the Israel-US war on Iran will top the agenda.

“I’m sure that will be number one on the agenda in the meeting today,” Danon told reporters.

He was responding to questions on whether Israel expects the two leaders to focus on specifics of ending or scaling down the war on Iran.

Danon said Israel is ready for “different scenarios.”

Israel’s wars on Lebanon and Gaza are also likely to be discussed according to a White House official.

White House says meetings with Netanyahu and Zelenskyy ‘positive and productive’

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said Trump’s meetings today with Zelenskyy and Netanyahu have concluded and were both “positive and productive”.

Netanyahu and Trump hold closed Oval Office meeting with top cabinet members in attendance

The meeting between Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu and US President Trump has concluded at the Oval Office; we can confirm that.

We can also confirm that several high cabinet members were also in attendance.

Vice President JD Vance, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth were all in that meeting.

This was closed to the press, and we do not yet have a readout.

But we do have a statement from press secretary Karoline Leavitt, pointing to both meetings that took place, including the meeting earlier in the day with Ukraine’s president Zelenskyy, saying that both of those meetings were “positive and productive”.

There was a certain framing that this meeting with Netanyahu would not only be narrowly focused on Iran, but more broadly aligned with the US interests in the Middle East region.

Netanyahu says Trump meeting ‘excellent’, reflected US-Israel ‘complete partnership’

The Israeli prime minister has made some video remarks after his meeting with Trump, calling the private talks in the White House “excellent”.

The meeting “reflected a complete partnership, bilateral support, and an understanding of the shared goal of ensuring that Iran does not acquire a nuclear weapon”, Netanyahu said.

“There was an opportunity to exchange views and make important arrangements for the security and future of Israel,” he added, without elaborating.

The White House earlier described the gathering, which included other senior US administration officials, as “positive and productive”.

Protesters gathered in Washington, DC to express their opposition to the visit by Netanyahu, who is wanted by the International Criminal Court over alleged war crimes and crimes against humanity in Gaza.

Netanyahu ‘talking up’ meeting with Trump amid unpopularity at home

What’s interesting is this wasn’t in front of the news cameras – this has been so often before with Donald Trump.

Karoline Leavitt, the White House press secretary, said simply it was “positive and productive”. That’s very diplomatic speak for things went reasonably well.

Benjamin Netanyahu said it was an “excellent” meeting. It was reported in Israel that Netanyahu was very keen to raise the question of Pickaxe Mountain. The Israelis said there has been building work going ahead there; they believe the Iranians are putting together another nuclear facility.

Netanyahu also said the meeting took place in the presence of senior officials. That, to a degree, says he didn’t get a bilateral meeting with Donald Trump.

This time, there was no one-on-one for the two of them.

Certainly, Benjamin Netanyahu is talking up what happened in the meeting. He’s aware that he’s got an election later this year, and Donald Trump is much more popular in Israel than he is – and he’s made a big deal of tying himself to the US president.