- Trump rejects European mediation efforts and useless.
- Israel “wins”, so the stop of strikes is difficult: the American president.
- “Two -week window for Iran to avoid the American response.”
President Donald Trump said on Friday that Iran had a “maximum” of two weeks to avoid possible American air strikes, indicating that he could make a decision before the deadline of fifteen days which he set earlier.
Trump added that he was not inclined to prevent Israel to attack Iran because he was “won” and was disdainful of European efforts to mediate the end of the conflict.
“I give them a while, and I would say that two weeks would be the maximum,” Trump told journalists when asked if he could decide to hit Iran before that.
He added that the goal was to “see if people come back or not”.
Trump had declared Thursday in a statement that he “would make my decision to make or not within the following two weeks” because there was “substantial chances of negotiations” with Iran.
These comments had been largely considered to be opening a two -week window for negotiations to end the war between Israel and Iran, the European powers rushing to talks with Tehran.
But his latest remarks said Trump could still make his decision before if he believed that there had been no progress towards the dismantling of the Iran nuclear program.
Trump rejected the talks that the European powers in Great Britain, France, Germany and the EU had with the Iranian Minister for Foreign Affairs in Geneva on Friday.
Europe “ has not helped ‘
“They did not help,” he said when he arrived in Morristown, New Jersey, before a fundraising dinner in his nearby golf club.
“Iran does not want to speak to Europe. They want to talk to us. Europe will not be able to help you.”
The Iranian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Abbas Araghchi, said after the talks in Geneva that Tehran would not resume negotiations with the United States until Israel stops his attacks.
But Trump was reluctant.
“It is very difficult to make this request right now,” said Trump.
“If someone wins, it’s a little more difficult to do than if someone loses, but we are ready, arranged and capable, and we talked to Iran, and we will see what’s going on.”
Meanwhile, Trump has doubled on his statements that Iran is a few weeks old to be able to produce a nuclear bomb, despite divisions in his own administration on intelligence behind his evaluation.
Tulsi Gabbard, Director of National Intelligence of Trump, said in a report in March that Iran was not nearly enriched uranium for a nuclear weapon.
“She is wrong,” said Trump about Gabbard, a long -standing opponent of the American foreign intervention that Trump has exploited to coordinate the sprawling American spy community.
Iran says its nuclear program is for peaceful purposes.
‘450 missiles’
Since Israel launched its offensive on June 13, targeting nuclear and military sites but also hit residential areas, Iran responded with dams which, according to Israeli authorities, killed at least 25 people.
A hospital in the Israeli port in Haifa reported 19 injured, including a person in serious condition, after the last Iranian salvo.
Until now, more than 450 missiles have been dismissed on the country, as well as around 400 drones, according to the National Directorate of Public Diplomacy of Israel.
Iran said on Sunday that Israeli strikes killed at least 224 people, including military commanders, nuclear scientists and civilians. He has not updated the toll since.
On Friday, an NGO based in the United States, the news agency for human rights activists, allowed on Friday on the basis of its sources and its media reports, saying that at least 657 people had been killed in Iran, including 263 civilians.
