Netanyahu agreed US should press Iran to cut oil sale

President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu agreed at a White House meeting that the ⁠U.S. would work to reduce Iran's oil exports to China citing two U.S. officials briefed on the issue.



China accounts for more than 80% of Iran's oil exports.



Any reduction in that trade would mean lower oil revenue for Iran.



U.S. and Iranian diplomats held nuclear talks through Omani mediators last week in an ⁠effort to revive diplomacy, after the U.S. president positioned a naval flotilla in the ⁠region ⁠as the American military ⁠prepares for the possibility of sustained, week-long operations against Iran.