Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will fly to Washington to meet with US President Donald Trump on Wednesday to discuss Iran, his office announced Saturday night, a day after US-Iranian talks were held in Oman.

“The prime minister believes that any negotiations must include restrictions on ballistic missiles and an end to support for the Iranian axis,” the Prime Minister’s Office said in its statement announcing the meeting, indicating concerns about the progress of the US-Iran talks thus far.

Netanyahu will depart for Washington on Tuesday, a source with knowledge told The Times of Israel Saturday. He will meet with the president Wednesday morning local time, and depart the US on Thursday, landing back in Israel Friday morning local time, the source said.

The meeting comes as the US and Iran appear set for a second round of nuclear talks, perhaps as soon as the coming days.

Washington and Tehran held the first day of high-level talks in Oman on Friday. The talks focused on Iran’s nuclear program, and Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said later that it would not give up its right to enrich uranium. Iran’s ballistic missile production was not discussed, sources said.

Netanyahu was originally scheduled to be in Washington from February 18-22, but the meeting was moved a week earlier at the premier’s request, a White House Official told Axios.

This will mark the seventh time Netanyahu has traveled to the US since Trump began his second term in the White House just over a year ago. He last traveled to the US in late December and spent New Year’s Eve at the US president’s Mar-a-Lago resort in........

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