Netanyahu outplayed Trump on Iran. Now the US risks being mired in another war | Mohamad Bazzi

BBefore Dawn on Friday, Israel opened an air strike wave against more than 100 targets in Iran, including nuclear facilities, ballistic missile factories and air defense systems. The surprise Israeli attack also killed Iran’s most senior military commanders and nuclear scientists. The Iranian regime called it the “war declaration – and the Western forces competed to prevent a wider regional conflict that could be withdrawn in the United States, along with other countries in the Middle East.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu claims that Iran is trying to prevent the development of nuclear weapons, while the attack aims to blow up the ongoing negotiations between Tehran and Donald Trump’s administration. Although Trump’s general foreign policy is a disaster, it has been for months Netanyahu resisted Pleas Giving Israel a green light to attack Iran, with the help of the US. Trump insisted on asking Iranian leaders to make an agreement that would force Tehran to give up the nuclear program in exchange for getting rid of the US and other international sanctions.

After the attacks on Friday, Trump claimed that the Iranian regime could still be convinced to negotiate, Means tehran “He should make an agreement without anything left”. The authority added that Israel can carry out more attacks that will be more ruthless ”. Before Trump’s aggressive comments, Foreign Minister Marco Rubio had come out of his own way to explain that Israel had received “One -sided action” And he warned Tehran against targeting US military bases or embassies in the Middle East. “We are not involved in strikes against Iran, and our biggest priority is to protect American forces in the region,” Rubio said.

It is difficult to imagine that Netanyahu will start such a brazen attack against Iran without any support from Trump. Like all modern US presidents, Trump is in Israel billions of dollars and international laws and institutions such as the UN Security Council undermined to protect Israel from criticism. However, Trump also rewarded his reputation as a dealer and invested significant political capital to negotiate an agreement with Iran. In a meeting held this week, the President Told to the prime minister He preferred diplomacy.

He left Netanyahu Trump behind by attacking Iran and torpedo by torpedo – and the Israeli leader could keep the United States well in a new Middle East conflict in which Trump did not want. Netanyahu is sure that the US will always save it after Hamas attacks on Southern Israel in October 2023. Even after Israel started a war against Gaza, even after a two -month Lebanese invasion and frequent attacks on Syria, it continues to receive almost unlimited US weapons and political support from Washington.

Is it surprising that Netanyahu is encouraged to take greater risks that weaken many of Israel’s neighbors and now threaten to swallow the wider Middle East in a regional war? Starting from the decisive support of Joe Biden’s administration and with Trump, Netanyahu knows that the US will always protect Israel from the costs of climbing and adventure. And US taxpayers are based on the invoice: from October 2023 to September 2024 USA provided Israel With a gun of about $ 18 billion, the Pentagon spent 4.9 billion dollars on its military activities in the Middle East. This is the $ 22.7 billion fund that allows Netanyahu to extend Israel’s ruthless war to Gaza, an attack of Israel. Detected War Crimes And it caused genocide charges.

The Trump administration announced in February that it would send more than $ 8 billion. New weapons to Israel – Unchanging political support for Biden’s unsuccessful policy of unlimited arms shipments and Netanyahu. Trump, the so -called great dealer, has not used the most effective leverage on the provision of US weapons and political covers.

Trump’s Permanent claim That America wants to be a peaceful that ends the war heritage forever, and now refused to restrict Netanyahu, a US ally, a US ally, who has not yet paid a price for its temperatures – the risk of being another US president in a conflict in a conflict in the Middle East.

At the opening address in January, Trump strengthened his desire to establish himself as a mediator who ended global conflicts, including wars in Ukraine and Gaza and to avoid completely new wars. “My most proud legacy will be a peaceful and unifying,” he said. Trump also passed the fact that his predecessor Barack Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize in his first year in 2009, although he had made a series of diplomatic agreements known as Ibrahim agreements between Israel and a few Arab states in 2020.

If Trump has the hope of winning a Nobel Prize – to save a small legacy as a peaceful – he will have to correct the Iranian agreement he harassed seven years ago.

In 2018, Trump unilaterally withdrew the US from an agreement signed by Obama in his first period, and took years to negotiate with six world forces in which Iran limited Tehran’s nuclear enrichment in exchange for relief of sanctions. Trump’s 2015 agreement, which is called “disaster ,, allowed Iran to continue to produce nuclear fuel at low enough to operate nuclear power plants, but did not produce weapons. After Trump abandoned the original agreement, Iran approached the development of a more nuclear weapon than ever before. According to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Tehran early this year sufficiently enriched uranium To produce six nuclear weapons, Iran would still need additional work for up to one year to develop a real nuclear war title and distribute it to a missile.

In the first weeks of his second period, Trump seemed willing to negotiate a new agreement with Iran: he sent a letter to Iran’s high leader Ayatullah Ali Khanei, saying that the US wanted to restore negotiations abandoned by the Biden administration. As he often did in negotiations with enemies and enemies, Trump issued a threat and said that if the diplomacy failed to Iran’s leaders, they would be exposed to “bombing the likes they’ve never seen before.”

In March, Trump sent a special ambassador Steve Witkoff to lead a team of US negotiators to meet with the best Iranian authorities during the most frequently indirect talks in which Oman intermedia. Since then, Iran and the United States have held five rounds of meetings. The next negotiation tour had to be held on Sunday and Witkoff was going to Oman.

During Friday’s attacks, Israel killed Ali ShamkhaniHe’s one of the best Iranian officials responsible for nuclear negotiations with the United States. Shamkhani, the highest -level leader of Iran, was not officially part of the Iranian delegation in the current tour of the US negotiations, but played a very important role in controlling nuclear policy.

Iran is Removed From the latest talks for this weekend. Netanyahu may have destroyed Trump’s chances of agreement with Iran – and the Prime Minister increased the possibility of another disaster.