President Trump just revealed why he paused the fighting this weekend and explained to N12 in Israel (Barak Ravid) that he’s not going to give much time for negotiations, saying it will happen fast or it won’t happen.
He said he will return to very powerful military action if the new negotiations don’t succeed.
So why did he return to negotiations? It’s the same reason he did it before, which is because the countries that have been mediating between the US and Iran asked him again to give negotiations a chance.
Here’s the news (translated from Hebrew):
President Trump said this evening (Monday) in an interview with News 12 that he decided to suspend the American attacks against Iran in order to give another chance to negotiations, but emphasized that he may order a return to more powerful military action if diplomatic efforts fail.
Talks are mainly conducted between Iran and Oman. However, Qatar, Pakistan, Egypt and Trump’s envoys, Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, are actively involved in the efforts.
“We are having very deep conversations with Iran. If they don’t succeed, we will return to very powerful military action”, Trump said.
When asked how much time he was willing to give to diplomatic efforts, he replied: “Not much time. Either it will move fast, or it won’t happen at all.”
Trump said he decided to suspend the attacks on Friday because the countries that mediate between the United States and Iran and other countries in the Middle East asked him to give another chance for negotiations.
“Everyone involved in contacts with Iran asked me: ‘Don’t shoot'”, Trump said, emphasizing that in his opinion the Iranians want to reach a deal.
“There is nothing to gain and nothing to lose”, Trump said when explaining why he responded to the brokers’ request. According to him, since he put the attacks on hold, oil prices have fallen and stock markets have risen.