Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is expected to meet with US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo later this week, on the sidelines of a NATO summit in London, Channel 13 news reported Sunday.
Netanyahu will fly to the British capital on Tuesday for talks with Pompeo, and will spend two days meeting with world leaders, pressing them about Iran and its recent withdrawal from commitments to a 2015 nuclear deal, the report said.
In addition to Pompeo, the prime minister plans to meet with German Chancellor Angela Merkel and France’s President Emmanuel Macron, as well as other leaders.
Netanyahu last met with Pompeo in October, when the US top envoy visited Jerusalem.
Israel is not a member of NATO and Netanyahu is not an invitee to the conference. The North Atlantic Treaty Organization is holding a two-day gathering of member heads of state and government on December 3-4.
Earlier Sunday Netanyahu scolded six new European members of the INSTEX barter mechanism meant to circumvent US sanctions on Iran, saying they encouraged the Iranian regime’s repression of its citizens and “should be ashamed of themselves.”
“While the Iranian regime is killing its own people, European countries rush to support that very murderous regime,” Netanyahu charged in a video.
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