Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu denied on Saturday any coordination between him and former US National Security Advisor Mike Waltz regarding a potential Israeli attack on Tehran, which an American newspaper reported was one of the reasons for Waltz's dismissal.

Last Thursday, US President Donald Trump announced the dismissal of Waltz, less than four months after assuming the position, and immediately appointed him as Washington's ambassador to the United Nations, a move awaiting Senate confirmation.

Trump did not disclose the reason for the dismissal, but US press reports linked it to a scandal involving Waltz last March, when he accidentally added a reporter to a Signal conversation with Trump's top national security aides regarding the US bombing campaign against the Houthi group in Yemen.

The Washington Post reported today, citing two informed sources, that one of the reasons for Waltz's dismissal was that he "had upset Trump after Netanyahu's visit to the Oval Office in early February, when the national security adviser appeared to share the Israeli prime minister's belief that the time had come to strike Iran."

The two sources said that Waltz "appeared to be engaged in intense secret coordination with Netanyahu regarding military options against Iran ahead of an Oval Office meeting between the Israeli prime minister and Trump."

One of them noted that "Waltz wanted to take US policy in a direction that Trump was uncomfortable with, because the United States did not attempt to reach a diplomatic solution."

"It got to Trump, and the president wasn't happy about it," he added.

In response, Netanyahu's office said in a statement, "The Washington Post report about secret coordination between Netanyahu and Waltz regarding Iran is incorrect."

The statement claimed that "Netanyahu did not have any contact or meeting with Waltz regarding Iran," noting that the only encounter between them was a "friendly meeting" last February at Blair House (a guest house across from the White House), prior to Netanyahu's meeting with President Trump, with the participation of US Special Envoy Steve Witkoff.

The statement continued, "Waltz also participated in another meeting between Netanyahu and US Vice President J.D. Vance, before the Israeli Prime Minister left Washington."

The office explained that "since then, there has been only one phone call between Netanyahu and Witkov, and it did not address the Iranian issue," it claimed.