Patience with Iran is pushing, warns Donald Trump. But Iran stands on. US president is faced with an election: negotiating or attacking?
The situation has fluctuated rapidly for the US rule. Israel’s large -scale attack on Iran happened when the Americans had been in negotiations with Tehran for a new nuclear agreement for several weeks.
President Donald Trump According to unanimous media data, had resisted Israeli pressure on an attack against Iran for several months. Once the attack happened, Trump said that the United States had nothing to do with it. A few days later, the tone has changed.
The US president is now facing a road choice.
The diplomatic path
The talks between the US and Iran would continue on Sunday, but they had to be canceled due to the attacks.
When the talks began last spring, the United States was said to be open to allow Iran to continue to enrich uranium to a low degree and in small quantities, for civilian purposes. The conversations were described in positive terms.
Harder Republicans in the United States, and the Israeli government, have been on hard for the enrichment to be stopped altogether. For Iran it has not been negotiable, but in early June Trump swung and demanded “zero enrichment”.
Organizations that work for disarmament have questioned Trump’s new zero tolerance. It is seen as counterproductive if you want to reach an agreement as they see that the overall goal – to prevent Iran from getting nuclear weapons – can still be reached.
In other contexts, Trump has given a test of a tactic that is about turning his arm on the counterparty with sky -high demands and greatest possible pressure, preferably with capital letters via social media.
Iran is said to be willing to return to the negotiating table, but outside the country first requires a ceasefire. Trump’s envoy Steven Witkoff is said to be in readiness for new meetings at short notice.
The military road
“We check the airspace above Tehran,” Trump announced after a few days of escalation. Although the United States has not intervened, the president has threatened Iran with “even more brutal” Israeli attacks. He demands that the Iranian regime capitulate unconditionally, with hints that the United States could easily kill Ayatolla Ali Khamenei.
In the spring, the United States has placed strategic bombing in the Indian Ocean and now a aircraft carrier and more planes have been sent to the Middle East. Iran has warned that US attacks would be answered. A small spark is feared to have a devastating major war to flare up, with the risk of more parties being withdrawn.
Trump has long been clear that the United States will not enter into new “wars of eternity” – which many supporters at home are loudly reminiscent of. The president has wanted to present himself as a peace broker with promises to quickly end big war.
At the same time, Israel needs advanced American bombs to be able to knock out Iran’s nuclear energy completely. But the Israeli government has also raised the bar for the war, attacked more goals than purely military and talked about regime shifts as an end.
With a military threat, the United States could try to force Iran into concessions. Sources about Donald Trump tell ABC News that the president does not want to end up in a situation where it appears that he “shouts wolf” with his threats.