National Security Advisor Mike Waltz meeting with Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth and Secretary of State Marco Rubio. January 28, 2025. Source: https://x.com/WhiteHouse/status/1884391528933777687

i24 News – As US President Donald Trump announced earlier in the week the decision to ouster his national security advisor, a report claims that Michael Waltz’s “intense coordination” with Israeli leader Benjamin Netanyahu has contributed to his sacking.

According to The Washington Post, while “Waltz’s fate was sealed” by his apparently accidental inclusion of an Atlantic journalist on a sensitive Signal group chat in March, he also “upset” Trump after an Oval Office visit by Netanyahu, “when the national security adviser appeared to share the Israeli leader’s conviction that the time was ripe to strike Iran.”

The report quoted an administration insider as saying that Waltz “wanted to take US policy in a direction Trump wasn’t comfortable with because the US hadn’t attempted a diplomatic solution.”

The US is now engaged in nuclear talks with Iranian representatives.