Trump: Iran-Israel war must end

Afghan Voice Agency (AVA): US President Donald Trump addressed the topics of his conversation with Russian President Vladimir Putin in a statement on Saturday evening.

 

He wrote in a statement on the social network "Truth Social": "This morning (Washington local time) President Putin called me to wish me a happy birthday and more importantly, to talk about Iran, a country that he knows very well."

 

Trump added: "We had a long conversation. We talked for a little while about Russia and Ukraine, we will talk about that next week. He is doing the agreed prisoner exchange. Many prisoners are being exchanged between Russia and Ukraine. The phone call lasted about an hour.”

 

He continued: “He feels, like me, that this war between Israel and Iran must end, which I explained to him must also end his own war.”

 

Trump’s alleged demand for an end to the ongoing war between the Zionist regime and Iran, which followed the regime’s terrorist attacks on our country, comes after he previously boasted in interviews with several American publications of his knowledge of the attack and his “cooperation with Israel to attack Iran.”

 

After months of Trump’s apparent insistence on the Zionist regime not to attack Iran and “moving forward on a nuclear deal with Tehran,” the US president stated in an interview with Reuters that he and his team knew that “an Israeli attack on Iran was happening, however, there was still room for an agreement.”

 

“We knew everything and I tried to save Iran from death and humiliation,” the US president told Reuters. “I tried to save them because I wanted to see a deal.”

 

Trump had apparently repeatedly pressured Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to delay an attack on Iran to give diplomacy more time, even though Trump himself had threatened to support an attack if nuclear talks failed.

 

Trump’s reversal of stance on the Israeli strikes, which he called “great” and “very successful” in an interview with Reuters, was one of the most striking examples of how he has handled high-stakes negotiations through blunt public rhetoric and behind-the-scenes maneuvering.

 

In his interview with Reuters, Trump said he supported Israel and added that he was not worried about a regional war as a result of the Israeli attacks, but did not elaborate.

 

He added: "We knew everything. We knew so much that we gave Iran 60 days to make a deal, and now that time has passed. That's why I say we knew everything. It is still unclear whether Iran has a nuclear program despite the Israeli airstrikes. Nobody knows."

 

The conversation between Trump and Putin and the two presidents' demand to stop the war came as Omani Foreign Minister Badr bin Hamad al-Busaid stressed on Saturday evening: "The Iran-US talks will not be held in Muscat on Sunday."

 

He wrote in his message on the social network "X": "But diplomacy remains the only way to achieve lasting peace."

 

In a conversation with European Union Foreign Policy Chief Kaya Kallas, Iranian Foreign Minister Seyyed Abbas Araghchi, citing the messages and statements of the US President, considered the hostile actions of the Zionist regime to be the result of direct support from Washington and emphasized that the continuation of indirect negotiations between Iran and the US in a situation where the barbarity of the Zionist regime continues is unjustifiable.

 

The Iranian Foreign Minister added: "The Islamic Republic of Iran, in order to protect its national sovereignty, people and security, has given a decisive response to the aggressions of the Zionist regime and is determined to use its legitimate right to take countermeasures."/ISNA