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Report: Senior Israeli official calls US-Iran deal ‘terrible’; PM refused Vance’s request to scale back IDF presence in Lebanon
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleIsraeli officials were shocked by the Sunday announcement that the US and Iran had reached a deal, with one senior Israeli official calling the agreement “terrible for us,” Channel 13 news reports.
Jerusalem had long assessed that the negotiations would end up collapsing, the report notes.
It adds that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu recently held a tense phone call with US Vice President JD Vance in which the latter asked for Israel to scale back the IDF’s presence in Lebanon, but Netanyahu refused.
“The IDF won’t withdraw, but from now on, every action will be scrutinized,” a source is quoted as saying by the network.
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