29-03-2024 10:58 AM Jerusalem Timing

White House Denies Inviting Netanyahu for Talks

White House Denies Inviting Netanyahu for Talks

The Zionist Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper said Tuesday that US President Barack Obama invited Zionist Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for a meeting in the White House next month.

Zionist Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (L), US President Barack Obama (R) in the White HouseThe Zionist Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper said Tuesday that US President Barack Obama invited Zionist Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for a meeting in the White House next month after a deadline for reaching a nuclear agreement with Iran.

Citing US officials, the paper added that Netanyahu would travel to Washington in mid-July, approximately two weeks after the June 30 deadline for the Iran nuclear deal.

Zionist media stated that such meeting would likely be the latest in a series of tense sessions between the two leaders who have a famously frosty relationship, and the first since Netanyahu’s reelection in March amid signals of disapproval from the White House.

However, Netanyahu's office denied receiving offer from Obama administration "for a sit-down between two less-than-friendly leaders after nuclear talks deadline," the Times of Israel news website said Tuesday.

There was also no immediate confirmation from the White House.