“Two weeks.” It is the deadline given by the president of the United States, Donald Trump, to decide if he attacks Iran. “I have a message from the president: based on the fact that there is the possibility of substantial negotiations with Iran in the near future, I will make a decision on whether or not to go in the next two weeks,” said the spokeswoman for the White House, Karoline Leavitt.
The formula of the “two weeks” is common in Trump's statements. It has been giving Vladimir Putin “two weeks” to end the Ukraine War.
Leavitt said that communication between the United States and Iran “has continued”, although he did not give details about them, although the US president has insisted on the “unconditional surrender” of Iran and the renunciation of nuclear capabilities.
Trump, in any case, has been flirting these last hours with the possibility of ending Iran.
On Tuesday I was already talking about the fact that they were in the spotlight to the supreme leader of Iran, Ali Jamenei, and the next day went further
“I may do it, I may not do it. I mean, nobody knows what I'm going to do,” Trump told journalists this Wednesday at the White House. “I can tell you this: Iran has many problems. And they want to negotiate. And I say:” Why didn't they negotiate with me before all this death and destruction? ”
“The president is always interested in a diplomatic solution … he is a chief peacemaker. He is the president of Peace through force. Therefore, if there is an opportunity for diplomacy, the president will always take advantage of it,” said Leavitt, who clarified: “But he is not afraid to use force.”
Leavitt refused to say if Trump would request the authorization of the Congress for any attack against Iran, and said that Washington was still convinced that Iran had never been so close to obtaining a nuclear weapon, against what his intelligence manager in the Senate in the Senate said in March, Tulsi Gabbard.
Three diplomats told Reuters that Trump's special envoy, Steve Witkoff, and Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi, have spoken on the phone several times since Israel began their attacks last week.