Seyed Araghchi claims US president’s Arab allies now view Israel’s recklessness as ‘a threat to us all’
Donald Trump should defy Benjamin Netanyahu and realise renewed talks with Iran over its nuclear programme are a better bet and more likely to succeed owing to stronger support in the region for a successful outcome, the Iranian foreign minister, Seyed Araghchi, says in a Guardian article. He also suggests Trump’s Republican base want a deal and not further unnecessary wars.
Araghchi was writing a day after Netanyahu held talks with Trump in the US in which Israel’s calls to consider fresh attacks on Iran were discussed alongside the Gaza peace plan.
Netanyahu claims Iran may be seeking to rebuild its nuclear programme after joint Israeli-US assaults on Iran in June severely damaged its key nuclear sites. Netanyahu has also been expressing growing concern about the risk to Israel posed by the neighbouring country’s missile programme. He will be emboldened by reports of protests running into a third day in the Tehran bazaar over its depreciating currency and rising inflation.
On Monday, speaking alongside Netanyahu in Florida, Trump said: “I hope they’re not trying to build up again because, if they are, we’re going to have no choice but very quickly to eradicate that buildup.”
