Risk of wider war with Iran raises stakes for Trump in NATO summit
Hague – After bombing the US nuclear facilities, whether it started a wider war against Iran may come to meetings with NATO partners this week. Alliance summitA long -term meeting in the Netherlands has much higher risks.
So far, Washington’s transatlantic partners have praised the US operation supporting Iran’s nuclear infrastructure, air defenses and an ongoing Israeli campaign aimed at military leadership. However, European authorities told Times that their hopes were withdrawn Trump from any of them. Flirting with regime change In Iran, Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu have been clearly discussing in recent days.
As Trump, US intelligence and military officials continue to evaluate the outcome of US strikes against the main nuclear sites in Fordow, Natanz and Isfahan, they are scheduled to come to The Hague on Tuesday morning for the two -day meeting, which is expected to focus on the new crisis.
After the September 11 attacks, NATO participated in a US -led coalition in Afghanistan and directly participated in the last two US war in the Middle East, which helped to train and advise the security forces in Iraq. And although not a NATO member, Israel coordinates with a security block with a process called the Mediterranean dialogue, which includes efforts against the spread of evacuation weapons.
In Monday evening, Mauritshuis, the Hague’s historical court pond and Vermeer’s “pearl -cubed daughter” gaze, NATO officials, European military leaders and US senators, Trump, NATO members is a summit that is seen as a peak that is seen as a summit that is seen as a summit that is seen as a peak that is seen as a peak that is seen as a summit. A summit – with the possibility of a new war instead.
As the event ends, Iran hit the US Military Base in QatarThe largest in the Middle East. However, the Iranians in advance to Doha on the strike to prevent losses, New York Times ReportIt shows that Tehran may be looking for a ramp from an ongoing rise with Washington.
Pentagon, Iran’s nuclear infrastructure “seriously damaged” called the US bombing run, American and Israeli officials, Tehran’s attacks before the start of the equipment and fissil materials accepted.
As Iran’s concerns could maintain a breaking ability, Israel’s target list in Iran expanded to reflect military ambitions beyond Iran’s nuclear program, including an hour of the destruction of Israel in the city center of Basij militants, on Monday and an hour in Tehran city center.
Michael Rubin, a former Pentagon official and Iranian expert at the American Institute of Enterprise, said “Trump spoke too early, Tr Trump said that he“ destroyed ”Iran’s nuclear capacity with weekend strikes.
“We may have waited for a long time with our handshake, and considering the time to evacuate the enriched stocks of the Iranians. If so, it represents the failure of this leadership,” he added, reported that the trucks can be seen on the US attack. “If they were scattered at that time and the US Intelligence Society follows where they went, this is an intelligence failure that may be as expensive as before the Iraq War.”
European forces, especially France, Germany and the United Kingdom, paid attention to praise Trump for ordering strikes. However, they immediately called for a return to negotiations and expressed the concern that Israel has begun to target sites that have nothing to do with Iran’s nuclear program.
British Prime Minister Keir StarmerThe “volatility” warning in the region encouraged Iran to “return to the negotiation table and reach a diplomatic solution to end this crisis”. And Germany’s Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul questioned whether Tehran’s nuclear knowledge could be bombed. “Nobody thinks it is a good thing to continue to fight,” he said.
“I wanted Deansalation and Iran to allow it to return to diplomacy to use the greatest restriction in this dangerous context, France said French President Emmanuel Macron. “To establish a dialogue and to give a clear commitment to give up nuclear weapons from Iran, it is essential to prevent the worst for the whole region. There is no alternative.”
In the following hours on Monday, Israel has hit the prison of Iran’s famrious house, where foreign nationals were organized, and French French Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot issued a more frightening rebuke. “All strikes should stop now,” he said.
A European official said that when he arrived to underline his military achievements, he said that he would make efforts and his for example – using the military force to deterd an authoritarian enemy – he could be applied to Russia in his war against Ukraine. Trump said that it was time to give a chance to diplomacy, as he showed peace with power.
However, it is not clear whether Iran is satisfied with a diplomatic breakthrough.
One Send it to x On Sunday, Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said Israel’s attacks last week and the US had the chance to succeed this week.
“Last week, when Israel decided to explode this diplomacy, we were negotiating with the US. This week, when the US decided to fly this diplomacy, we talked with E3/EU,” he wrote, and the calls made to bring Iran to Iran were incorrectly placed. E3 represents France, Germany and Italy.
“How can Iran go back to something he never left?” Added.
On Monday, before his strike against the US base in Qatar, Iranian military leaders promised revenge to the US for strikes.
Lieutenant Col. President of the Central Command of the Iranian Army Ebrahim Zolfaqari Video Notification Iranian publisher on Press TV. The US attack will “expand legitimate and various targets for Iran’s armed forces”.
Nabih Bulos, the Times personnel writer in Beirut, contributed to this report.
