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U.S. and Israel to hold high-level Iran consultations next week

A senior Israeli delegation is expected to visit the White House early next week for strategic consultations about Iran, two Israeli officials and one U.S. official tell Axios.

Why it matters: President Trump has given Tehran a two-month window to negotiate a new nuclear deal, as Axios reported, and has raised the threat of military strikes on Iran's nuclear program if no deal is reached.

  • Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his team think the odds of a deal are low, and want to align on a joint course of action should things escalate to military force, one of the Israeli officials said.
This will be the first meeting of the U.S.-Israel Strategic Consultative Group (SCG) since Trump assumed office. It's the most senior forum for U.S.-Israeli discussion on Iran's nuclear program.

  • They are expected to meet with a U.S. team led by Trump's national security adviser Mike Waltz and representatives from the State Department, Pentagon, and U.S. intelligence community.
Zoom in: A senior U.S. official said the talks are expected to focus on the Iranian nuclear issue and the possibility of negotiations between the U.S. and Iran.


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