Benjamin Netanyahu says "Why not?" to diplomatic path that avoids reigniting heavy combat

The United States and Iran have paused military strikes for two consecutive days, as mediators push to revive an interim ceasefire deal strained by recent clashes over the Strait of Hormuz and broader tensions around Iran’s nuclear program. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, set to meet President Donald Trump in Washington on Tuesday, said on Fox News that he wholly endorses Trump’s strategy to pressure Iran and force it to abandon nuclear weapons development. Netanyahu expressed openness to a diplomatic outcome as long as it does not reignite heavy combat, but cautioned that any fresh Iranian assault on Israel—directly or through allied groups—would be a catastrophic miscalculation.