President Trump revealed Monday that he will confer with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu about when to end the military campaign against Iran, suggesting the decision would be “mutual” between the US and its Middle Eastern ally.

“I think it’s mutual … a little bit,” Trump told the Times of Israel in a phone interview, adding that he and Netanyahu have “been talking.”

“I’ll make a decision at the right time, but everything’s going to be taken into account,” the president added.

Trump previously suggested that the war against Iran could last approximately four weeks, but other members of his administration have been reluctant to provide a specific timeline.

The president has also demanded “unconditional surrender” from Iran, and the White House has stressed that the objective of the Operation Epic Fury campaign is to degrade Iran’s navy and ballistic missile arsenal as well as ensure the regime does not obtain a nuclear weapon or continue to arm terrorist proxies across the Middle East. 

The initial wave of attacks Feb. 28 wiped out dozens of senior leaders in Iran, including Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, whose son Mojtaba was announced as his successor Sunday.

Having previously dismissed the younger Khamenei as a “lightweight” and “unacceptable to me,” Trump told the Israeli outlet that “we’ll see what happens” in response to his elevation.

The younger Khamenei, who also lost his wife and mother in the US-Israel strikes, is widely seen as a hardliner. He has never held a government position before. 

Elsewhere in the interview, Trump hailed the collaboration between the US and Israel as the war entered its 10th day.

“Iran was going to destroy Israel and everything else around it,” the president said. “We’ve worked together. We’ve destroyed a country that wanted to destroy Israel.”

At times, the US and Israel have seemingly differed over the approach to the war with Iran. On Saturday evening, Israel carried out a series of strikes on fuel depots in Iran that went much further than the Trump administration anticipated, Axios reported. 

“The president doesn’t like the attack. He wants to save the oil. He doesn’t want to burn it. And it reminds people of higher gas prices,” an adviser to Trump told the outlet.

Last June, Trump waited more than a week before joining Israel’s 12-day war against Iran, eventually green-lighting the use of 30,000-pound GBU-57 Massive Ordnance Penetrator bombs to blow up Iran’s nuclear facilities. 

This time around, Israel and the US launched the attack on Iran in tandem, and despite a few differences, Trump has embraced Netanyahu — even calling once again Monday for Israeli President Isaac Herzog to pardon the prime minister for alleged breach of trust and bribery offenses.

“Bibi Netanyahu should be given that pardon immediately. I think [Herzog is] doing a terrible thing by not giving it. We want Bibi to be focused on the war, not on a ridiculous pardon,” Trump told the Times of Israel.

“Bibi’s done a great job. He’s been a wartime prime minister. We’ve worked together. We’ve destroyed a country that wanted to destroy Israel, [and] would have destroyed Israel if I wasn’t around. And [if] Bibi wasn’t around, Israel would not exist today.”