Donald Trump received vital information to keep everything on hold, but there are those who see the American president with his finger ready to pull the trigger
There is talk behind the scenes at the White House about what the United States should do in relation to Iran. Between military intervention and diplomacy, even the Trump administration is divided, as the vice president, JD Vance, seems to be in favor of dialogue, while the president, Donald Trump, is more inclined towards an attack.
In any case, this scenario now seems further away, as several governments of Arab countries have tried to raise awareness among Donald Trump, asking him not to attack Iran because of the protests that have already killed more than two thousand people, according to several human rights organizations.
According to , which cites three sources close to Arab governments, these same talks managed to achieve the main objective: de-escalating tensions and making Donald Trump rethink what to do.
This is what Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Qatar, Oman and Egypt were doing, in a combination of efforts that try to calm the growing tensions, while in Iran the protests do not stop, with thousands of people in the streets every day calling for an end to the ayatollah regime.
In power, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and the government are arguing that this is the echo of a small minority that is serving and being instrumentalized by Donald Trump, which is causing a division in Iranian society that is even visible in what is happening outside – on social media what we see are protests, on television we see the destruction of public space.
“Things have deescalated for now”, confirms an Arab source to the Financial Times, noting that “the United States is giving time for talks with Iran and to see where things go from there”.
It was through this communication that Iranian officials assured Donald Trump that there would be no executions of protesters, in information that the President of the United States confirmed having received, and which followed the news that Erfan Soltani, who would be the first to die at the hands of the State following the protests, had not been executed.
The information coming from both sides thus increases confidence that a military attack is avoidable, but there is still a lot to dig through to reach security, not least because the White House warned, this Thursday afternoon, of “serious consequences” if Iran’s word is not kept.
For Iran, the essential thing is that Donald Trump does not start with the expression he used a few days ago, when he said that “help is on the way”, in a declaration of hope to the protesters, but which may now fall into emptiness.
And even in the face of ongoing negotiations, all movements point to a state of readiness on the part of the United States, which has already moved personnel from its largest base in the Middle East, in Qatar, and even called the aircraft carrier USS Lincoln, which was in the Indian Ocean, to the region.
“We are told that the killings in Iran are stopping, and they are stopping. They are stopping and there are no plans for executions or executions,” said Donald Trump.
If Iran goes back on this promise, the United States is ready to move forward. As a Trump administration official tells the Financial Times, the president of the United States “is ready to pull the trigger and call de-escalation a bluff.”
