Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said he and US Leader, Donald Trump “don’t always see eye-to-eye” after the US president grew frustrated at Israel’s attacks on Lebanon.
Netanyahu was asked about his relationship with Trump during a press conference which came after the US president announced he had signed a peace agreement with Tehran.
Trump had earlier described his Israeli counterpart as a “very difficult guy” who should be “very thankful” to the US. But Netanyahu added that they are partners, therefore they often agree and sometimes disagree.Trump earlier said a peace deal with Iran is “all signed” and that the Strait of Hormuz is fully open to traffic, following weeks of tense negotiations during a fragile ceasefire.
Speaking shortly after arriving in Evian, France, for a G7 meeting, Trump also said the full text of the Iran deal would be released after a signing ceremony on Friday.
A senior administration official said shortly before Trump’s comments that Israel’s withdrawal from Lebanon is not a condition of the deal. If Iran is unable to control Hezbollah and prevent it from launching attacks on northern Israel, the Israeli army will have the right to respond, the official said.
The breakthrough agreement, digitally co-signed by President Trump, Vice President JD Vance, and Iranian Parliamentary Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, stipulates the immediate reopening of the strategic Strait of Hormuz to global shipping traffic in exchange for the lifting of the United States’ maritime blockade on Iranian ports.
The framework also maps out a conditional path toward broader sanctions relief and the unfreezing of assets, tied directly to strict international policing of Iran’s nuclear program. However, major diplomatic and security fault lines remain.
While international markets responded sharply with plunging oil prices and rallying stock indexes, domestic reactions inside Israel have been deeply fractured.
Opposition leaders have criticized the accord as a major foreign policy failure that leaves Iran’s regional missile infrastructure intact.
Netanyahu and his cabinet have aggressively pushed back, stating that Israeli forces will maintain “deep security zones” and remain positioned indefinitely inside southern Lebanon, Gaza, and Syria to counter ongoing threats regardless of the bilateral Washington-Tehran deal.