Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and United States President Donald Trump are expected to meet in Washington, DC, on Wednesday to discuss recent US-Iran nuclear negotiations, the Prime Minister's Office announced on Saturday evening.
"The Prime Minister believes that any negotiations must include limiting ballistic missiles and ending support for the Iranian axis," the PMO stated.
Netanyahu will additionally convene meetings with coalition heads and political and security cabinets on Sunday ahead of his US visit, according to a Walla report.
Previously, Trump stated that the nuclear talks, which took place on Friday in Muscat, Oman, were “very good” and that US and Iranian officials are "going to meet again early next week," while speaking with reporters on Air Force One.
"They want to make a deal," Trump said of Iran, adding that, regardless of other terms that may be included in a potential future deal, Iran will be allowed "no nuclear weapons."
Iranian FM decries 'inequality'
Despite Trump's comments, Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi, who was present for the Omani-mediated discussion, asserted on Saturday that Iran’s ballistic missile programs “cannot be negotiated, neither now nor in the future,” in a Saturday interview with Qatari state-run news agency Al-Jazeera.
In a separate speech delivered at the Al Jazeera Forum in Doha, Araghchi decried what he alleged was “inequality” in the way Israeli arms programs are treated.
Araghchi claimed that “Israel is free to expand its military arsenal without limits, including weapons of mass destruction that remain outside any inspection regime,” while other nations, such as Iran, are “demanded to disarm.”
He accused Israel of being an "expansionist project” that “permanently enjoys the upper hand" while requiring “that neighboring countries be weakened militarily, technologically, economically, and socially.”
Tobias Holcman contributed to this report.