The Mirror US By Jeremiah Hassel
Israel “undermined Donald Trump’s negotiating position” with Iran and placed the U.S. president in an impossible predicament — both for his diplomatic goals and for his ego, an expert claimed.
Israel’s primary goal in attacking Iran was to utterly dismantle its nuclear program and prevent it, once and for all, from producing a nuclear weapon. But Israel has fallen short of that goal — and it won’t be able to achieve it without either sparking negotiations with Iran or involving the U.S.
That’s where things get tricky for President Trump.
On the one hand, Iran is already blaming the U.S. for Israel’s attack — the U.S. helped Israel’s Iron Dome defense system intercept Iranian missiles flying into Tel Aviv and Jerusalem, and it also provided many of the weapons Israel used to strike Iranian targets. Actual U.S. offensive involvement in the conflict is irrelevant to Iran. It comes after Trump was slammed for an alarming White House decision.
Trump cautioned Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu against the strikes, believing — and accurately so — that they would escalate the conflicts already raging in the Middle East.
He also believed that they would harm his negotiating position with Iran as the countries work toward a new nuclear proliferation agreement…
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