US President Donald Trump said that he hoped the war between Israel and Iran is over, he told a journalist at the White House on Monday night.
"I hope [the war] is over," Trump said at a dinner held in attendance with US and Israeli leaders such as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, US Ambassador Mike Huckabee, and US special envoy Steve Witkoff.
Trump added he would love to remove tough US sanctions on Iran at the right time.
"I would love to be able to, at the right time, take those sanctions off, and give them a chance at rebuilding, because I'd like to see Iran build itself back up in a peaceful manner and not go around saying, 'Death to America,' 'Death to the USA,' 'Death to Israel,' as they were doing," he said.
Additionally, at the dinner, Witkoff stated that talks between the United States and Iran on its nuclear program would resume next week.
Preventing Iran from rebuilding nuclear program
On Sunday, an Israeli official told The Jerusalem Post that Netanyahu would ask Trump for a "green light" to take action against any Iranian activity related to Tehran's rebuilding of its nuclear program in their meeting at the White House.
"The goal is to receive a mandate similar to the situation in Lebanon, meaning that if suspicious activity is detected at nuclear sites, or if there's evidence of uranium being removed from the areas that were hit by US and Israeli warplanes, there would already be prior US approval to act against it," the official added.
The official told the Post that Israel wants to work with the US to prevent Iran from reconstructing its nuclear program.
"We want the snapback sanctions mechanism to be imposed on Iran as well, due to its lack of cooperation with the International Atomic Energy Agency," he said.