President Donald Trump said on Monday, April 7 that the United States would begin direct and high -level conversations with Iran about his nuclear program on Saturday, in a shock announced with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. “We are having conversations immediately with Iran, and they have begun,” Trump told journalists at the Oval office on Monday after a meeting that was Meean to concentrate on Israel’s commitment to avoid US tariffs. “Maybe an agreement is going to be made, that would be great. We will meet very important on Saturday, almost at the highest level,” he said.
The surprising Trump’s announcement occurred one day after I was dismissed the direct negotiations on a new agreement to stop the nuclear program of the Islamic Republic, qualifying the idea without meaning. Hours after Trump announced conversations with Tehran, Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said on Tuesday that the two countries will have “high -level indirect” conversations in Oman on Saturday. “It is as an opportunity as a test. The ball is on the United States court,” Araghchi wrote on the social media platform X.
The president of the United States withdrew from the last agreement in 2018 during his first presidency, and there have been generalized speculation that Israel, possibly with the help of the United States, could attack the Iranian facilities if a new agreement is not reached.
Trump said: “Everyone agrees that making an agreement would be preferable to do the obvious, and it is obvious it is not something that I want to get involved or, frankly, that Israel gets involved, if it avoids it.” The surprise announcement occurred when Netanyahu became the first foreign leader in personally begging a postponement of stopping American tariffs that have shaken the world.
Israeli prime minister promised that “the commercial deficit between the two countries would” eliminate “and also demolished commercial” barriers. ” His country moved to lift his last remaining tariffs on the imports of the USA before the meeting. Netanyahu said he felt that Israel could serve “as a model for many countries” when it comes to negotiating tariffs.
New negotiations so that Israeli hostages are released
Netanyahu and Trump also discussed Gaza, where a short -term and negotiated truce between Israel and Hamas has collapsed. Netanyahu said the new negotiations were in process destined to obtain more hostages released from Gaza devastated by war. “We are now working on another agreement that we hope is successful, and we are committed to getting all hostages,” Netanyahu said in the Oval office.
Trump also doubled his plan for the United States to “control” the Gaza Strip, which described as a “great piece of real estate”, which he initially announced when Netanyahu visited him in February.
Previously, Trump greeted Netanyahu outside the west wing and pump their fist, before the two leaders, both with dark suits, red tires and white shirts, enter a meeting in the Oval office. A planned press conference between the two leaders was canceled in the short term without explanation in an unusual movement, but spoke with a smaller group of the pool reporters in the Oval office.
The visit of the Israeli Prime Minister is his second to Trump since the president of the United States returned to power and it is a short -term warning, a few days after Trump applied a 17% tariff on Israel in his announcement of the “Liberation Day” last week. Trump refused to exempt the maximum beneficiary of the US military aid of his global tariff save, since he said that Washington had a significant commercial deficit with Israel.
Netanyahu with the United States Secretary Howard Lutnick and the US trade representative Jamieson Greer on Sunday night shortly after his arrival, according to his office. The Israeli prime minister also with the special envoy of Middle East of Trump, Steve Witkoff, Monday.
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