Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, during a conversation with U.S. President Donald Trump, agreed to delay a response to Iranian strikes and give Washington time to reach a deal with Tehran, Axios reports.

“Netanyahu objected, but ultimately (...) agreed to back down,” the outlet writes, citing a U.S. official.

According to him, Netanyahu’s conversation with Trump this time was calmer than their tense exchange of views last week.

“We believe the president has bought a little time. He is stating quite firmly that we are close to a deal with Iran. I do not think there will be anything like Israeli strikes in the near future,” the Axios source explained.

Earlier, Trump said in an interview with the Financial Times that Netanyahu “will have no choice” but to agree to any deal reached between the United States and Iran. “I make all the decisions. He (Netanyahu - IF) does not make the decisions,” the U.S. president stressed. He said that Iran’s strikes on Israel had not changed his intention to reach a diplomatic solution with Tehran.

As the Israel Defense Forces reported, on Sunday evening ballistic missiles launched by Iran were intercepted for the first time since April 8.

For their part, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps said that the missile strike was a direct “response to the large-scale crimes of the Zionist regime in Lebanon, which led to killings and the mass displacement of civilians.”