While the whole world eagerly awaits an agreement between the U.S. and Iran, U.S. President Donald Trump posted on his TruthSocial account on May 25, demanding that Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Pakistan, Egypt, Jordan and Türkiye, as well as Iran, join the Abraham Accords. He stated that this was not a request but rather a necessity, and that if these countries did not join the agreement, negotiations with Iran would not proceed to the next phase.
While these remarks, which dropped like a bombshell, caused widespread outrage and astonishment in regional countries, they were met with satisfaction in Israel. This is because it had been deeply disappointed that, since the Abraham Accords were implemented in 2020, no other regional country besides the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain had joined the process. Following Trump’s latest statement, Israel has begun to anticipate the possibility of new participants joining the Abraham Accords process.
However, despite Trump’s threatening remarks, none of the countries mentioned has expressed a willingness to join the Abraham Accords, which require normalization with Israel under the current conditions. On the contrary, it has become clear that Trump is desperately trying to use the Abraham Accords as a tool to end the war with Iran, and this demand has been flatly rejected.
