Trump Sets 2 Week Window For Discussions To Stop Iran-Israel War

As we’ve seen in the past, Trump is going to do all he can to avoid war, but, he will strike if necessary

Trump’s new two-week negotiating window sets off scramble to restart stalled Iran talks

President Donald Trump’s decision to open a two-week negotiating window before deciding on striking Iran sets off an urgent effort to restart talks that had been deadlocked when Israel began its bombing campaign last week.

The hope among Trump and his advisers is that Iran — under constant Israeli attack and having suffered losses to its missile arsenal — will relent on its hardline position and agree to terms it had previously rejected, including abandoning its enrichment of uranium, according to US officials.

The deferred decision, which came after days of increasingly martial messages from the president suggesting he was preparing to order a strike, also gives Trump more time to weigh the potential consequences — including the chance it could drag the United States into the type of foreign conflict he promised to avoid.

But negotiating a diplomatic solution in Trump’s condensed timeline appeared to face significant early hurdles.

Yeah, there are, starting with it being Iran and their insane, ultra-Islamist leaders. I hope they realize that Donald Trump is not a typical politician. He doesn’t really have that whole moderation thing down. He won’t lean into a proportional attack. Just like he wacked Qasem Soleimani where no one else would, he will hit Iran hard.

In putting off a decision, Trump appears to be placing more stock in a diplomatic solution that only a day earlier he appeared to suggest was out of reach.

“I think the president has made it clear he always wants to pursue diplomacy. But believe me, the president is unafraid to use strength if necessary,” press secretary Karoline Leavitt said Thursday after relaying Trump’s new two-week timeline. “And Iran and the entire world should know that the United States military is the strongest and most lethal fighting force in the world, and we have capabilities that no other country on this planet possesses.”

See?

The new, within-two-weeks time frame for talks was not universally welcomed. An Israeli intelligence official expressed dismay that Trump would not make a decision – one way or the other.

“This is not helping,” the official said.

Yeah, well, we certainly want to support Israel, but, we would like to avoid a new war, even if it would involve bombing parts of Iran back to the stone age.

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