Trump had publicly asked Israel not to attack while looking for a negotiated solution and his envoy Steve Witkoff had planned to meet with high Iranian charges for the sixth time on Sunday.
On Friday Trump described, however, as “excellent” the attack, he said that Israel has “the best and most lethal military team in the world” thanks to the United States and said there will be more attacks unless they will reach an agreement.
However, the head of diplomacy, Marco Rubiohas insisted that the United States is not involved in attacks and He warned Iran not to retaliate against the thousands of American soldiers highlighted in nearby Arab countries.
However, an American official confirmed that Washington helps Israel knock down missiles fired by Iran in retaliation.
“The United States has calculated that it can help Israel and Iranians will obviously be aware of it, but after all, at least at the public level, the United States remains on the site,” said Alex Vatanka, founding director of the program on Iran of the Middle East Institute of Washington.
It is expected that “the Iranians do a rapid analysis of costs and benefits and decide that it is not worth fighting,” Vatanka said.
According to him, for the moment the Iranian leaders are busy to do their best to remain alive, but they could decide to abide by an agreement that does not satisfy them or internationalize the conflict further, causing chaos in the Gulf, rich in oil. This could shoot crude oil prices and press Trump.
“United States first”
Most of the main congressmen of Trump’s Republican party supported Israel, whose prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, is a hero for many on the American right.
But the basis of the ultraconservative movement “United States first” has been a bit skeptical.
Tucker Carlson, the leading media commentator who advised Trump against an American attack on Iran in his first term, has described as exaggerated the fears of Tehran to build a nuclear bomb.
Trump has incorporated non -convinced interventionists into his administration.
In an unusually political video, its director of National Intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, warned this week, after a visit to Hiroshima, that the “warnings” put the world at risk of a nuclear catastrophe.
In a speech in Riad last month, Trump denounced decades of American interventionism in the Middle East and said: “My greatest hope is to be a peacemaker and be a unifying. I don’t like war.”
The OIEA: Iran “is not far” from getting the nuclear pump
Iran “is not far” from getting the nuclear bomb, said the director of the International Atomic Energy Agency (OIEA) in an interview with Le Monde recently.
“It’s like a puzzle, they have the pieces and one day they can join them. There are still for that. But they are not far, you have to recognize it,” said Rafael Grossi.
From his X account, the Argentine diplomat described the encounter with Araqchi as “important” and pointed out: “Cooperation with the OIEA is indispensable to offer credible guarantees about the peaceful nature of the Iranian nuclear program when diplomacy is urgently necessary.”
The United States and other Western powers maintain suspicions about Iran’s intention to build nuclear weapons, although Tehran reiterates that its program has strictly civil ends, especially for energy production.
Iranian Minister Abás Araqchi said Wednesday that the issue of uranium enrichment “is not negotiable.”
Israel is convinced that Iran was about to get the nuclear weapon before the “preventive attack” that made Thursday against several strategic points.
How far do Israel support?
Daniel Shapiro, who was an ambassador of the United States in Israel under the mandate of former president Barack Obama, says he is sure that the United States will support Israel against possible Iranian reprisals.
But in his opinion, Trump will face a difficult decision on “if using the unique abilities of the United States to destroy Tehran’s underground nuclear facilities and avoid an Iranian nuclear weapon,” Shapiro said, now a member of the Atlantic Council for Forum for Reflection.
“The decision will divide its advisors already their political base” in the face of the fear that Netanyahu tries to drag him to the war.
Democratic congressmen are very critical of Netanyahu, especially for the Israeli offensive in Gaza, despite the fact that this war originated after the terrorist attack of Hamàs – military financed by Irrse – to Israelì territory on October 7, 2023, which leaves a balance of more than 1,200 dead, in its most civilians, and kidnapping 251 people. More than 50 are held by Hamàs terrorists.
“This Netanyahu attack is pure sabotage,” Democratic congressman Joaquín Castro estimated.
“What even ‘United States means first’ if Trump allows Netanyahu to drag the country to a war that Americans don’t want to?” The Democrat wrote on social networks, whose party has aligned himself to the extreme left.
The clergy who govern I will support the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas in Gaza and Netanyahu considers them an existential threat to Israel; One of the clearest examples was the lethal attack on October 7.
The attacks occurred after Iran threatened to increase the production of highly enriched uranium before a new round of negotiations with Washington.
