ed note–before all the self-declared geo-political geniuses chime in with their ‘business as usual’ tidalwave of one-dimensional ‘expert’ political analysis on this, viz that it is all ‘an act’ and ‘a hoax’ and that ‘secretly,’ SEEKRITLY, Trump wants war with Iran more than Netanyahu does, don’t bother.
The POTUS has nothing to gain by ‘pretending’ to be opposed to war. If he truly wanted war as so many ‘experts’ claim, all that would be necessary would be a repeat of Israel’s 9/11 terrorist attacks against the US and the POTUS would then have the entire country screaming for Iran’s annihilation as much as they did for Iraq’s.
Therefore, anyone of whatever pedigree claiming that Donald Trump is a SEEKRIT member of Chabad, that he is a ‘SEEKRIT Joo’ and that as ‘Netanyahu’s slave’, he is SEEKRITLY moving the world closer to Armageddon needs to be just flat-out ignored as much as someone would ignore someone trying to sell ‘geunine’ Rolex watches in downtown Manhattan for a mere $5.
Times of Israel
On the eve of his meeting with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, US President Donald Trump said that the Israeli premier ‘wants a deal’ with Iran, and that the current talks on Tehran’s nuclear program show ‘great promise’.
‘Last time they didn’t believe I would do it,’ Trump told Barak Ravid, a reporter with both Israel’s Channel 12 and the Axios news site, about the American strikes in June 2025 on Iran’s nuclear sites at the end of the 12-day Israel-Iran war, which came just days after the collapse of diplomatic negotiations.
‘They overplayed their hand,’ said Trump. This time, the negotiations are ‘very different,’ he added. ‘We can make a great deal with Iran.‘
The remarks came at a pivotal time in the tensions between the US and Iran. Trump has threatened to attack Iran over its bloody crackdown on anti-regime protesters last month, and Iran has threatened to retaliate by hitting Israeli and US targets.
The US is now in the midst of negotiations with Iran over its nuclear program.
Trump told Axios that it was a ‘no-brainer’ that any deal with Iran would include its nuclear facilities, and that he expected it would be possible to include its missile program as well.
Netanyahu’s visit to Washington is expected to focus on those talks. Trump said on Tuesday he was considering sending a second aircraft carrier to the Middle East in the event that the negotiations fail.
‘We have an armada that is heading there and another one might be going,’ he said, adding that he is ‘thinking’ of sending another aircraft carrier strike group, after boosting the US military presence in the region in recent weeks.
The US President also averred that Netanyahu is not against the current US-Iran talks. ‘He also wants a deal. He wants a good deal,’ he said.
Iran, Trump said, also ‘wants to make a deal very badly.’ But Trump told Ravid that the US isn’t afraid to play tough, saying, ‘Either we will make a deal or we will have to do something very tough like last time.’
The United States moved the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln, ships, and warplanes to the Middle East to pressure Iran into an agreement and to have the firepower necessary to strike the Islamic Republic should Trump choose to do so.
Already, US forces shot down a drone they said got too close to the Lincoln, and came to the aid of a US-flagged ship that Iranian forces tried to stop in the Strait of Hormuz, the narrow mouth of the Persian Gulf.
His remarks came hours after a top Iranian security official traveled to Oman, the Middle Eastern sultanate now mediating the talks between Tehran and Washington, the first since the 12-day war. The visit by Ali Larijani, a former Iranian parliament speaker who now serves as the secretary to the country’s Supreme National Security Council, likely focused on what comes next.
In Oman, Larijani’s entourage shared photos of him meeting with Omani Foreign Minister Badr al-Busaidi, the chief intermediary in the US-Iran talks, with what appeared to be a letter sheathed in plastic, and sitting alongside the Omani diplomat.
Iran has, in the past, communicated its positions in writing when dealing with the Americans. Famously, Japan’s then-Prime Minister Shinzo Abe tried to hand Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei a letter from Trump in 2019 that he refused to take.
Iranian media had said Larijani would deliver an important message. However, Iranian state television hours after that meeting described al-Busaidi as having ‘handed over a letter’ to Larijani.
It did not elaborate on where the letter came from.
Larijani also met with Oman’s Sultan Haitham bin Tariq for nearly three hours, the state-run IRNA news agency reported.
The pair ‘discussed the latest developments in the Iranian-American negotiations,’ the official Oman News Agency said.
Larijani and Haitham also explored ‘ways to reach a balanced and just agreement between the two sides, and emphasized the importance of returning to the table of dialogue and negotiation.’
During his trip to Muscat, Larijani also met Mohammed Abdulsalam, the spokesperson for Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthi terror group.
Larijani was later to travel to Qatar, which hosts the major US Al-Udeid military base that Iran attacked in June after the US bombed Iranian nuclear sites.
He also accused Israel of trying to play a ‘destructive role’ in the talks.
‘Americans must think wisely and not allow him, through posturing, to imply before his flight that ’I want to go and teach Americans the framework of the nuclear negotiations,’ Larijani said in a post on X.
Elsewhere, US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee said there is ‘extraordinary alignment between Israel and the United States’ over the talks with Tehran.
‘Everyone would love to see something that would resolve without a war, but it’ll be up to Iran,’ said Huckabee before he boarded a flight to Washington with Netanyahu. He said that ‘as far as he knows,’ the US and Israel have the same red lines on Iran.