Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office dismisses unnamed sources who claim he and U.S. President Trump clashed sharply in a weekend phone call over what to do about the threat from Iran, with one reportedly describing their conversation as a "shouting match from hell."

"Fake news, complete nonsense," the office told Ynet Global, the English-language website for the Israeli newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth, referring to the "shouting match" claim reported by Ynet. 

Other sources described the call as an "unusually difficult and heated exchange," in Ynet's paraphrase, but a senior Israeli official told the newspaper it was "very much not a difficult conversation."

Netanyahu tried to convince Trump that the Iranian regime must be toppled, while Trump seeks a diplomatic agreement with Tehran. Resuming military action "doesn't seem to be a very necessary thing" but the U.S. is still "locked and loaded," Trump told reporters Monday after a meeting with Qatari Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani about Doha-mediated contacts between Washington and Tehran.