The US president and the Israeli prime minister have expressed agreement on the goal of preventing Iran from acquiring a nuclear weapon, the White House said.
Barack Obama and Binyamin Netanyahu sought on Friday to ease tensions over how to deal with Iran's nuclear programme, presenting a show of solidarity over how to confront Tehran.
Obama, widely seen as having snubbed Netanyahu by not meeting face-to-face during the annual UN gathering, spoke instead by phone to the Israeli leader amid signs of movement toward a truce in their war of words.
Netanyahu used his UN speech a day earlier to keep pressure on Washington to set a "clear red line" for Tehran.
But in a softening of his approach, he signaled that no Israeli attack on Iran was imminent before the November 6 US presidential election.
With an eye to the close US presidential race, Netanyahu also fielded a call during his New York visit from Obama's Republican rival, Mitt Romney, who has accused the president of being too hard on a close US ally and not tough enough on Iran.
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