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2025-05-28 Israel-Palestine-Jordan

Report: Trump told Netanyahu he ‘doesn’t want anything to impede’ potential Iran nuclear deal, anonymous US officials afraid Israel will attack Iran’s nuke sites without warning

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Posted by trailing wife 2025-05-28 2025-05-28 00:17|| || Front Page|| [163 views ] Top
File under: Govt of Iran

#1 Wunderbar.

Posted by Grom the Affective 2025-05-28 02:05|| 2025-05-28 02:05|| Front Page Top

#2

Given the number of BIDEN/OBAMA 5th column hold-overs still in DC circles, DOD generals openly challenging Trumps authority and the wide-openly Antisemitic Democrats on certain committees. I could understand why PM Netanyahu might not give Trump a lot of prior warning.

PM Netanyahu must act based on what is best to protect Israel and its people.

Posted by NN2N1 2025-05-28 06:58|| 2025-05-28 06:58|| Front Page Top

#3 More about the US officials’ concerns:

The desire comes despite American and Iranian negotiators being at apparent loggerheads over the issue of uranium enrichment, with US officials insisting on its total elimination in Iran, while the Islamic Republic has called it a red line.

During his first term, Trump ripped up a 2015 deal that capped Iran’s nuclear enrichment at 3.67 percent, and in recent years Tehran has begun to produce material to near-weapons grade levels.

Iran, which avowedly seeks Israel’s destruction, has consistently denied seeking to acquire nuclear weapons. However, it has been enriching uranium to levels that have no peaceful application, has obstructed international inspectors from checking its nuclear facilities and expanded its ballistic missile capabilities, and its officials have increasingly warned that they could pursue the bomb.

In an attempt to keep the negotiations alive, US envoy Steve Witkoff and mediating country Oman are “discussing creative options,” according to the Times report, including a joint venture between Iran, Saudi Arabia, and several other Arab countries, with some US involvement, to produce nuclear fuel, with the actual location of the enrichment as-yet undetermined.

Witkoff has also dropped his objections to an interim understanding laying out principles for a deal, the report said, with the Trump administration hoping that such a declaration would help hold off an Israeli strike.

This could be related to Trump’s statement Sunday that “something good” could be coming with respect to the talks in the “next two days,” the report noted.

Israel is said to be suspicious of any interim deal that would allow Iran to maintain its facilities for months or years with the negotiations ongoing.

If any declaration of principles is to satisfy Israel, as well as Iran hawks in the US Congress, it will probably have to require Iran to ship its highly enriched uranium out of its borders, or “down blend” it to a much lower level of enrichment, the Times said.

If so, that would allow Trump to claim he had, at least temporarily, removed the threat of an Iranian speed-run to a bomb.

Wednesday’s report came amid a flurry of accounts of heated disagreements between Trump and Netanyahu on Iran’s nuclear program.

The Times corroborated the reported tension, citing interviews with officials in the US, Europe, and Israel who have been involved in the debate between the two governments.

After Netanyahu’s meeting with Trump last month — when the US president, with the Israeli leader alongside him, made the shock announcement that nuclear talks with Iran would begin — the premier reportedly ordered national security officials to continue their plans for a strike on Iran, including for a potential operation without US support.

Since the meeting between the two leaders, Israel has been communicating to the US that it might strike on its own even if a deal is reached, according to the report.

Israel already has plans drawn up for such attacks, ranging from surgical strikes to days of bombardment on Iranian facilities, including some that are located in cities, the Times reported.

Israel’s talk of going it alone prompted Trump to make a phone call to Netanyahu, the Times reported, in which the premier did not deny ordering the preparations, and argued to Trump that Israel had a limited window to strike.

Trump acknowledged Iran’s weakness, but argued this gave the US leverage to make a deal, officials told the newspaper.

Last Friday, Strategic Affairs Minister Ron Dermer and Mossad chief David Barnea met with Witkoff in Rome, on the sidelines of the US-Iran talks. On Monday, they traveled to Washington to meet with CIA Director John Ratcliffe.

Dermer met with Witkoff again on Tuesday, the report confirmed, though the topic of that meeting wasn’t clear, and Hebrew media reports connected the meeting, which Barnea was also reportedly to attend, to efforts to reach a hostage deal with the Hamas terror group.

Asked for comment on the article, the White House referred The New York Times to Trump’s comments over the weekend, in which he said — as he has many times before — that he would “love” to see the nuclear issue resolved with “no bombs dropped.”

Netanyahu’s office responded to the article, according to the Times, with a statement reading: “Fake news.”

Posted by trailing wife 2025-05-28 07:18|| 2025-05-28 07:18|| Front Page Top

#4 Unnamed 'US officials'. Would that be the ChatAI the 'reporters' are using?

Posted by Procopius2k 2025-05-28 07:43|| 2025-05-28 07:43|| Front Page Top

#5 How many times has reality forced Israel to bomb a hostile country's nuclear reactor? How many times has a regional war started?

Israel needs to do this for humanity. Generation Alpha. For the Reset. Iranian Mullahs have talked about the end of the world and destroying Israel and America my whole life. Time for it to end.
#FreePersia

Posted by mossomo 2025-05-28 13:12|| 2025-05-28 13:12|| Front Page Top

#6 Iraq (Osirak - 1981) and Syria (in Deir ez -Zor - 2007) for sure, mossomo. They did an awful lot of work that has delayed Iran’s program by decades…

Posted by trailing wife 2025-05-28 15:26|| 2025-05-28 15:26|| Front Page Top

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