The president of the United States, Donald Trump, said Thursday that an Israeli attack against Iran “could happen very well”but I would not describe it imminent and that I would prefer to avoid the conflict with Tehran and achieve a peaceful solution on its nuclear program.
Trump made the comments after the UN Board of Governors of the UN Nuclear Control Agency declared that Iran had breached its non -proliferation obligations And Tehran announced countermeasures, while an Iranian official said that a “friendly country” had warned him of a possible Israeli attack.
American and Iranian officials will celebrate Sunday in Oman A sixth round of conversations about the escalation of the Uranium enrichment program of Tehranaccording to US and Omani officials.
But the perception of risk is greater since Trump said Wednesday than American personnel were being transferred out of the region because “it could be a dangerous place” and that Tehran would not be allowed to develop a nuclear weapon.
Washington is concerned that Israel can take military actions against Iran in the next few days, US officials said on anonymity, despite the recent warning of the warning of Trump to the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, against such an attack while American diplomacy with Tehran continues.
American intelligence indicates that Israel has been making preparations to hit Iran’s nuclear facilities. But an American official said there were no signs that Israel has made a final decision.
“I don’t want to say imminent, but it seems that it is something that could happen very well, “Trump told journalists at an event at the White Houseadding that they cannot allow you to develop a nuclear weapon.
“I would love to avoid the conflict,” he said. “Iran will have to negotiate a little harder, which means that they will have to give us something that they are not willing to give us right now.”
Security in the Middle East has already been destabilized by the indirect effects of the war in Gaza between Israel and the Palestinian militant group Hamás.
Trump has threatened to bomb Iran if nuclear conversations do not reach an agreement And he has said that he trusts less and less that Tehran accepts to stop enriching uranium. The Islamic Republic wants the sanctions that the United States imposed since 2018.
Earlier on Thursday, Trump expressed his frustration because prices From oil they had risen in the midst of supply concerns derived from a possible conflict in the Middle East.
With Washington offering few explanations about their security concerns, some foreign diplomats suggested that staff evacuation And US officials who anonymously pose the spectrum of an Israeli attack against Iran, could be a ploy to increase the pressure on Tehran to obtain concessions at the negotiating table.
Iranian president, Masoud fishshkian, said that even if the country’s nuclear facilities were destroyed by bombs, they would be rebuilt, The state media reported on Thursday.
The Board of Governors of the International Atomic Energy Agency declared that they will breach their obligations of No proliferation for the first time in almost 20 years, which raises the possibility of denouncing it before the UN Security Council.
The step is the culmination of A series of clashes between the OIEA and Iran since Trump took, during his first term, to the United States of a nuclear agreement between Tehran and the main powers in 2018after which that covenant got rid of.
An OIEA official said Iran had responded to the Board of 35 Nations informing the UN Control Agency that plans to open a third uranium enrichment floor.
