Europe, Iran holding talks as Trump sets two-week deadline for U.S. strikes decision

Diplomats from the United Kingdom, France and Germany are pressure for the diplomacy of the 11th hour with Iran in Geneva on Friday, as Washington Pass the possibility of joining the military campaign of Israel against Tehran over the next two weeks.

Iran And Israel have exchanged fires since last week, in the last culmination of tensions which has simmered since the terrorist attack of Hamas supported by Tehran against the Jewish State in October 2023. Israel has since fought a war against several fronts against the group of Palestinian activists and other Iranian proxies, such as Lebanon’s Houthi.

Ambassador of Israel to the United Nations, Danny Danysaid on Friday that his country “would not stop” his attacks “, until Iran’s nuclear threat is dismantled,” reports Reuters.

The conflict has risked a new escalation since the start of the week, in the midst of signals that the United States – historically a relative allies and supplier of weapons of Israel – could intervene militarily against Tehran.

“Based on the fact that there is substantial chances of negotiations which may or may not occur with Iran in the future, I will decide to go or not in the next two weeks”, President Donald Trump According to a statement read Thursday by the White House spokesperson Karoline Leavitt.

After a meeting on Thursday with American Secretary of State Marco Rubio and the special envoy for the Middle East Steve Witkoff, British Foreign Minister David Lammy said that the three “discussed how an agreement could avoid a conflict of deepening” and “a window now exists in the next two weeks to obtain a diplomatic solution”.

“There is no room for negotiations with the United States until the Israeli aggression stops,” Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi, who is expected to attend talks in Geneva.

Trump’s aversion to Iran’s nuclear program was a central point of its state activity in the two terms. The chief of the White House withdrew the United States from the Complete Complete Action Plan, or JCPOA, during his first presidency, tightening the node flowing on Iran’s chests through a series of financial sanctions and linked to strict oil.

Trump self -proclaimed “Peacemaker” Trump has so far pursued a second nuclear program agreement since the start of his second term, initially expressing a preference for a diplomatic breakthrough – people and European officials are now hoping to strike.

“In the United States, [there are] Many political leaders who are convinced that we must not both make mistakes in the past. What we have seen in Libya, what we have seen in Afghanistan, what we have seen in Iraq, we do not want to see reproduced, “said French Minister of Foreign Affairs, Jean-Noël Barrot in a television interview with French media, according to a CNBC translation.

In particular, the United Kingdom, France and Germany – alongside the Iranian allies of Russia and China – were previously involved in the JCPOA with Washington and Tehran.

The markets have been shaken by the possibility that the conflict destabilizes the Middle East richer in oil and potentially relying in the largest economy in the world, attenuating investors on a flight to package assets and a wider concentration on defense companies and initiatives.

In another sign of the climbing of tensions – both in Israel and Iran, and in the current war between Russia And Ukraine – Russian president Vladimir Putin pointed out the concern on Friday concerning the possibility that the world is heading for the Second World War.

“It’s disturbing,” said Putin, when asked if he was concerned about the possibility, by Reuters.

“I speak without irony, without any joke. Of course, there is a lot of conflict potential, it increases and it is just under our nose, and it affects us directly,” he said during an economic forum in St. Petersburg, Russia.