Trump doesn't want US to join Israel-Iran conflict, CNN White House team report
Trump said on Sunday that a deal to “end this bloody conflict” remained within reach if Iran and Israel were willing to talk.
US President Donald Trump is hesitant to throw the US into the Iran-Israel conflict, believing there is no clear goal and that it could expand conflict in the Middle East, CNN's White House team reported on Monday morning.
Trump insisted on Sunday in a post to Truth Social that the US “had nothing to do with the attack on Iran tonight,” distancing Washington from Israel’s widening Operation Rising Lion while threatening Tehran with “force never seen before” if it strikes American targets.
He added that a deal to “end this bloody conflict” remained within reach if Iran and Israel were willing to talk.
Hours after the report, National Security Council Chief Tzachi Hanegbi commented, "The war was planned by Blue and White, we don't need the US for the goals we defined. We know how to handle all matters," KAN reported.
Trump's push for a nuclear deal
Trump told Reuters in a phone interview on Friday that he and his team had known the attacks were coming – and still saw room for an accord.“We knew everything, and I tried to save Iran humiliation and death. I tried to save them very hard because I would have loved to have seen a deal worked out,” Trump said.
the president said he had given the Iranians 60 days to come to an agreement and that the time had expired with no deal. “I couldn’t get them to an agreement in 60 days. They were close; they should have done it. Maybe now it will happen,” he said.
“We knew just about everything,” Trump said. “We knew enough that we gave Iran 60 days to make a deal and today is 61, right? So, you know, we knew everything.”
This is a developing story.
Jerusalem Post Staff contributed to this report.
