Analysis
The European Union discusses embargo to Israel, Moscow receives the head of Iranian diplomacy and Trump hears counselors about Middle East. A day of meetings that can mark the course of the coming weeks under review by the EXPRESSO PEDRO CORDEIRO International editor.
While the Get worse, international diplomacy moves. This Monday, the European Union Foreign Ministers meet in Brussels, the head of Iranian diplomacy is with Vladimir Putin in Moscow and Donald Trump attended a meeting of the National Security Council. In analysis with Pedro Cordeiro, specialist in international policy.
At the meeting of the European Union Foreign Ministers, a Spanish proposal promises to generate discussion: the request for embargo for the sale of weapons to Israel. But according to Pedro Cordeiro, there will be difficult to be consensus.
“I have doubts that there is wide consensus for this Spanish position, which is not surprising, since the Spanish government has been, along with the Irish, of those who have criticized Israel since the war in the Gaza Strip began. There are very different positions within the European Union.
Iran and Russia reinforce ties: “Last Allies” in the region
In Moscow, the Iranian foreign business minister is with Vladimir Putin. Iran has helped Russia in the war against Ukraine. In return, Moscow can offer diplomatic support.
“Russia wants to support Iran. It is the last ally left in the Middle East since the fall of the Assad regime in Syria.”
Trump listens to counselors
On the other side of the Atlantic, Donald Trump will attend the meeting of the National Security Council. It is not yet known if the United States intends to scale confrontation with Iran. The messages from the administration are contradictory: the Secretary of Defense speaks of achieved objectives,
“It is not certain that the assessment is that the administration does about whether or not you have done what you wanted or if you need to go further. We saw, on the one hand, the Secretary of Defense to say that it no longer wanted when the goal was achieved and that the Iranian nuclear program was destroyed, Trump even used the obliterated word, but then Trump at night was already talking about his social network about what the Iran regime was convenient. “
