President Donald Trump took a page straight from the Iranian diplomatic playbook when he claimed the United States had nothing to do with Israel’s preemptive strike on Tehran and urged the country’s hardline leadership to sit back down at the bargaining table, according to Israeli journalist Amit Segal. "When President Trump says, we had nothing to do with this operation, dear Iranians, and now we offer you to come back to the negotiating table, he uses the Iranian method, the proxy method, that said for years: 'We have nothing to do with the Houthis, we have nothing to do with Hamas or Hezbollah, we just want to negotiate,'" Segal explained Monday on the Call Me Back podcast hosted by American author Dan Senor. "Tehran has told Arab officials it would be open to returning to the negotiating table as long as the U.S. doesn’t join the attack," the outlet reported.
Author: Adam Kredo
Published at: 2025-06-16 21:40:57
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