It will be an important weekend for Iranian diplomacy as President Trump sends an envoy to speak with diplomats from Iran in Oman.
President Trump indicated that Israel could lead the U.S. into military action with Iran but then clarified that no one leads the U.S. into war because we do what we want.
“If it requires military, we’re going to have military,” Trump told reporters in the Oval Office. “Israel will obviously be very much involved in that — it’ll be the leader of that. But nobody leads us. We do what we want to do.”
Then why did Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu send his demands for the talks via a video message? He says that he wants for Iran what happened to Libya.
The U.S. caused regime change in Libya by forcing the country to blow up their own nuclear facilities under U.S. supervision and then using NATO to assassinate former leader Muammar Gaddafi. Libya was prospering before the U.S. got involved. President Trump has criticized Hillary Clinton for leading this charge against Libya. Would he turn around and do it to Iran?
Netanyahu also said that another possibility is that Iran would “drag out the talks, and then there is the military option.” He’s hardly one to talk about dragging out peace talks, having demurred on ceasefire talks with Gaza for 18 months.
According to recent reports, Israel hit another civilian neighborhood in Gaza, killing at least 30 people including 8 children.
