Trump: Israel Won’t ‘Drag’ US into Iran War, but Would Join if Deal Not Struck

US President Donald Trump, Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu and Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian. (Design: Palestine Chronicle)

By Palestine Chronicle Staff  

Asked in an interview with Time Magazine published on Friday whether he was worried the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu would “drag you into a war,” Trump said, “No.”

US President Donald Trump has said that he would not allow Israel to drag him into a war with Iran but that he would “willingly” join Israel if a deal with Iran over its nuclear program is not struck.

Asked in an interview with Time Magazine published on Friday whether he was worried the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu would “drag you into a war,” Trump said, “No.”

“He may go into a war. But we’re not getting dragged in,” he stated.

Trump, however, added that “You asked if he’d drag me in, like I’d go in unwillingly. I may go in very willingly if we can’t get a deal. If we don’t make a deal, I’ll be leading the pack.”

Discussing his first 100 days in office with Time, Trump was also asked about reports that he stopped Israel from attacking Iran’s nuclear sites.

“No, it’s not right. I didn’t stop them. But I didn’t make it comfortable for them, because I think we can make a deal without the attack,” he said.

Willing to Meet Iranian Leaders

Trump stated that it was possible “we’ll have to attack because Iran will not have a nuclear weapon.”

Ultimately, however, he was “going to leave that choice to them, but I said I would much prefer a deal than bombs being dropped.”

The US President expressed confidence about such a deal, saying, “I think that we’re going to make a deal with Iran,” and added that he was open to meeting with Iran’s president, Masoud Pezeshkian, or Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei.

The two countries began indirect nuclear negotiations in Oman last week, mediated by Muscat. Another round of talks was held in Rome this week and was expected to resume on Saturday.

Abraham Accords

Asked about his first major foreign trip to the Middle East next month, Trump said he was confident about a “Saudi-Israeli normalization deal.”

“I think Saudi Arabia will go into the Abraham Accords,” the US president stated, pointing out that the kingdom had “agreed to invest a trillion dollars” in the American economy.

He described the 2022 US-brokered Abraham Accords, which saw Israel establish ties with some Arab states, as “a tremendous success” but that former US president Joe Biden had “just sat with it.”

Trump said the Abraham Accords would “be full very quickly.”

Biden Blamed for Gaza Deaths

Asked about the deaths of 300 Palestinian children in Gaza since the last ceasefire collapsed, Trump said Biden was to blame.

“I would say that the blame for that is Biden more than anybody else, because I had, as you know, Iran was broke, and he allowed them to become rich,” he stated.

Trump claimed Biden “took off all the sanctions” against Iran leading to the country having “developed $300 billion in cash over a four year period.”

He then claimed Iran “started funding terror again, including Hamas.”

“I blame the Biden administration, because they allowed Iran to get back into the game without working a deal,” the president stated.

Ongoing Genocidal Assault on Gaza

Since Israel’s reneging on the ceasefire on March 18, it has killed and wounded thousands of Palestinians throughout the Gaza Strip through a bloody and ongoing aerial bombardment.

On October 7, 2023, following a Palestinian Resistance operation in southern Israel, the Israeli military launched a genocidal war against the Palestinians, killing over 51,000, wounding more than 116,000, with over 14,000 still missing.

Despite habitual condemnation by many countries around the world of the Israeli genocide, little has been done to hold Israel accountable.

Israel is currently under investigation for the crime of genocide by the International Court of Justice, while accused war criminals — including Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu — are now officially wanted by the International Criminal Court.

The Israeli genocide has been largely defended, supported, and financed by Washington and a few other Western powers.

(The Palestine Chronicle)

2 Comments

  1. Bullsh!t. He’ll change his mind when he suddenly remembers who gave him $Millions to help murder Arabs. Trump, a.k.a., Dondolf Twitler, is a danger to our national security in the USA because he’s unpredictable and 100% authoritarian: emphasis on the ‘ Aryan ‘ …
    Iran, is the ‘ Land of the Aryans ‘ .
    You’d think they’d get along. But it’s all fake anyway. Iran is not a threat to America. They have an issue with our leaders, not the citizens. After all we’ve done to make them the culprit you’d think they would want us gone, but they’d rather have peace. Wasrael does not want peace: they would nuke Iran in two seconds flat. They are a danger to the world.

  2. trump is all bluff and idiocy… he seems to forget that Iran has very close ties with both Russia and China and, above all, that Iran is Not saddam’s iraq!… as for israel– it is a bully with no balls… a political and military eunuch… brave only in killing women and children… as evil as NazI Germany and as ripe for destruction!

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