After President Donald Trump said U.S. negotiators will head to Pakistan for another round of talks with Iran, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during a statement with Argentina’s president Sunday said “we have achieved enormous things. It’s not over yet. And any moment could bring us new developments.”
“We are at a time of great challenge and great consequence. We have been engaged with the United States in a battle against the Great Tyranny of Iran, which terrorizes the world, which seeks our destruction and seeks to bring down the United States, seeks to bring down Western civilization as we know it,” said Netanyahu during joint statements with Argentine President Javier Milei.
Milei landed on Sunday for a three-day visit, meeting Netanyahu and visiting the Western Wall of Jerusalem’s Temple Mount.
Netanyahu warmly welcomed the far-right South American leader Milei in Jerusalem, calling him a “personal friend and someone who I deeply admire.”
Netanyahu praised Milei saying, “he’s a great leader, a great economic leader, and a great world leader.”
Milei was also given a plaque honoring him for lighting a torch on Israel’s independence day to take place Tuesday evening.
“This is the first time in Israel’s history in 78 years that we award a foreign leader with the honor of lighting the torch on our independence day. It’s never happened before and it right and just that it happens now with Javier Milei,” Netanyahu said.
After the statements, Netanyahu, Milei and officials signed bilateral agreements including the opening of a direct flight between the countries, agreements in the fields of aviation, security, and artificial intelligence.
Milei is among a small cohort of right-leaning leaders who have deepened ties with Netanyahu’s government even as Israel faces diplomatic isolation over wartime conduct, including in Gaza and Lebanon.
Some of Argentina’s South American neighbors have cut diplomatic ties or withdrawn their ambassadors.
