Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has agreed to hold off on retaliating against Iran’s ballistic missile barrage on northern Israel at the request of President Donald Trump, who told the Israeli leader that Washington is close to a deal with Tehran and asked for more time to reach it, U.S. and Israeli officials said.

Trump made the request during a phone call with Netanyahu late Sunday, shortly after Iran fired multiple waves of missiles at northern Israel in the first direct Iranian attack on the country since a U.S.-Iran ceasefire took effect in early April, according to Axios, which cited a senior U.S. official and a senior Israeli official. The administration believes it is “close to doing something good” on a diplomatic agreement, the U.S. official said, and did not want an Israeli strike to derail it.

An Israeli official said Israel still intends to respond to the attack, “even if not immediate,” according to reports.

Iran launched the barrage Sunday night in support of Hezbollah, hours after Israeli warplanes struck a stronghold of the Iran-backed group in the southern suburbs of Beirut, the first Israeli strike on the Lebanese capital since a U.S.-brokered ceasefire between Israel and Lebanon. The Israeli strike came in defiance of a request from Washington days earlier to stand down, and Israel described it as retaliation for Hezbollah rocket fire on northern Israel earlier in the day.

Israel’s military said its air defenses intercepted the incoming missiles and reported no casualties. Sirens sounded across northern Israel, and hospitals were instructed to move operations underground as the attacks continued. Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps said it had targeted the Ramat David air base in northern Israel and described the salvo as a warning. It threatened to broaden any future response to include American and Israeli targets across the region if Israel continued its operations in Lebanon or struck back.

In a telephone interview with the Financial Times after the call, Trump said the missile attacks had not changed his determination to reach a diplomatic solution with Iran. He said Netanyahu would have no choice but to accept whatever agreement the United States negotiates. “I call all the shots,” Trump told the newspaper, dismissing the idea that the Israeli leader would dictate terms. Earlier, Trump told Fox News the strikes were “certainly not going to help negotiations.”

It was not clear how long Israel would hold its fire, or whether the renewed missile exchanges would push the U.S.-Iran talks past the point of recovery. Negotiations mediated by Pakistan were continuing, with envoys shuttling between the parties as Washington and Tehran issued conflicting signals about the prospects for an agreement.

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