Both Israeli citizens accused of spying for Tehran "understood they were in contact with an Iranian handler," authorities said.

Donald Trump said a new deal with Iran would be "nice," but the country's foreign minister said it was "obviously not enough". He added: "The situation is different and much more difficult than the previous time.

Israel has arrested two soldiers on suspicion of spying for Iran in return for money, its police force said on Monday.

The announcement came as the United States pressures Israel and Hamas to continue a ceasefire that has paused a devastating 15-month war in Gaza.

Its nuclear programme is a rare area where Iran might claim to retain the initiative. Late last year Iran was producing around 7kg of uranium enriched to 60%—a stone’s throw from weapon’s grade—each month,

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Iran has cautioned Israel and the United States that any attack on its nuclear facilities would be "crazy" and could trigger a "very bad disaster" for the region. Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi made the statement in an interview with Sky News, marking his first public comments since Donald Trump began his second term as US president.

Nicole Grajewski is a Fellow in the Nuclear Policy Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and an Associate with the Project on Managing the Atom at the Harvard Kennedy School. She is the author of Russia and Iran: Partners in Defiance From Syria to Ukraine.

The Israeli prime minister will be the first foreign leader to visit Washington in Mr Trump’s second term in office.

The Jewish state became the first nation outside of the Joint Strike Fighter’s nine-nation co-development group to purchase the F-35 platform back in 2010.

Israel supplied Iran with centrifuge platforms containing explosives for its nuclear enrichment program in an act of sabotage