Trump Says Israel & Iran Will “Leave Each Other Alone For Another Week Or Something”

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President Donald Trump said that after the Israeli and Iranian missile strikes Sunday the two warring nations will likely refrain from further hostilities for a week or so. This statement comes after Trump told Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that he better be careful or the Jewish State will find itself fighting the Islamic Republic on its own.

Following the Israeli bombardment of Beirut, Lebanon, Iran launched a retaliatory strike against Israel Sunday.

“Now they’ve called it quits, so they’re gonna just leave each other alone for another week or something,” Trump said. “We’re in the final throes of what will be a very, very good deal that will not allow in any way, shape, or form nuclear weapons, etc.”

Netanyahu continues to prevent Trump from attaining a peace deal with Iran by attacking Lebanon.

“I said, ‘Do what’s right, but I want you to stop as quickly as you can,’ because they have to stop. It’s had to do with Lebanon, and it has to stop. We want to get it finished,” Trump said he told Netanyahu.

On Sunday the President called the Prime Minister and asked him to lay off the attacks. He warned him that if he continues the war he may find himself fighting alone.

“I said, ‘Bibi, you better be careful, or you will be on your own very soon,'” Trump told Axios.

Netanyahu told his senior military commanders to cease fire after the call.

While he obeyed Trump’s request in the short term, the President’s statement that Israel and Iran will stop fighting “for another week or something” indicates he doesn’t expect the ceasefire to last very long.

On Monday Axios said of their interview with Trump:

During the interview, Trump claimed once again that Iran wants a deal and one could be signed soon — a claim he’s made repeatedly during two months of ceasefire.

Trump is not the only one that is hoping Israel stops its war:

Trump told Axios he got calls from five different countries in the region asking him to press Netanyahu to stop. 

  • “These countries were very concerned. They love the deal that we have been negotiating,” Trump said.
  • Trump also claimed his administration received messages from the Iranians on Monday morning stating a willingness to stop shooting if Israel did the same.
  • “They called us and said that they are not doing any more attacks and asked us to tell Israel not to do any more attacks,” Trump said.

The Jewish State has been actively preventing the U.S. from attaining a peace deal in the Middle East.

Israel expanded their military ground operations deeper into Lebanon on May 26, past a previous demarcation line (the Yellow Line) that they had established in April.

The 2025 Trump-backed ceasefire between Israel and Hamas allows the Jewish State to control no more than 53% of the Palestinian enclave. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered his military to occupy 70% of the region in late May. 

”We now control 60% of the territory in the Strip. You know, we were at 50, we moved to 60,” Netanyahu told the Jordan Valley Conference in the occupied West Bank on May 28. “My directive is to move to… first of all 70%. Let’s start with that.”


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