Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Thursday that his government is not a party to any agreement between the US and Iran.
Netanyahu praised US President Donald Trump and his “commitment on the terms of any final Iran deal”.
However, he clarified that Israel was not part of the memorandum of understanding announced by Trump.
Netanyahu spoke to Trump on Thursday after announcing the deal, which has not yet been formally addressed by Tehran.
The Israeli Prime Minister’s office said Trump was committed to removing enriched material from Iran, eliminating enrichment infrastructure, limiting missile production, and ending Iran’s support for regional proxies.
Iran has indicated that the deal will not cover its missile program and that nuclear and economic issues remain to be discussed.
Following the outbreak of the war on February 28 and the assassination of Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in an Israeli airstrike on Tehran, the Lebanese Hezbollah militia fired rockets at Israel, prompting Iran’s entry into the war.
Israel launched airstrikes on the southern suburbs of the capital Beirut and other parts of its northern neighbor, causing the war to spread to Lebanon. The Israeli army has also captured a strip of land in southern Lebanon, creating a “security zone” from where it says Hezbollah launches attacks on Israeli cities.
Iran’s semi-official Mehr news agency, cited by the AFP news agency as reporting details of the preliminary agreement, said the memorandum of understanding would include a “permanent and immediate cessation of hostilities on all fronts, including Lebanon.”