Washington is unlikely to join Israel in its ongoing war with Iran, which Netanyahu had thought while planning to attack Tehran’s nuclear and military facilities, according to Israeli expert political commentators Ori Goldberg.
Though Netanyahu and his cabinet have been pushing an agenda to lure the United States into a war against Iran, efforts have failed since Trump has said “he hopes that both sides strike a deal”, ruling out any possible involvement in the war.
“Well, there’s certainly a desire for the US to get involved, prominently, among officials whose plans lack a clear endgame or strategy.
However, since nobody is clear about the real goal, it’s just as obvious that the US will, certainly at this stage, refrain from getting involved,” Goldberg said.
Many Israelis believe the hostilities will continue for the foreseeable future because the government has not spoken of an “off-ramp” or an “end-game”, said Goldberg.
He said, though there is a lot of support for this war with Iran”, that could quickly fade away once it blows out of proportion.”
“I think most Israelis who still care enough to try and consider what happens mid- or long-term will understand that Israel is in a problem.
As time goes by, it will become clear that not only will the United States not join the battle, but that other prominent world powers are also not prepared to make the leap and join Israel in Iran in the actual fighting,” he said.
Iran has said that it wants to pursue all diplomatic paths to defuse the tensions, but reiterated that it will not stop responding till Israel stops its attacks.
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Additionally, Iran executed an alleged Mossad collaborator on Monday, whom the regime believed had leaked classified documents to Israel. Ismail Fikri was hanged for passing classified and sensitive information “to the enemies of Iran”, reports said.
Furthermore, Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baqaei says the Iranian parliament is working on legislation to abandon the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT).
He said Iran does not want to procure the Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMDS), though it also denied scaling down Uranium enrichment.
The 190-member NPT, which was signed in 1968 and came into effect in 1970, bans signatories other than the United States, Russia, China, Britain and France from acquiring nuclear weapons – in return for allowing them to pursue peaceful nuclear programmes for power generation, overseen by the UN.
Iran has gradually stepped back from its obligations under the accord after US President Donald Trump quit the Iranian nuclear deal in 2018, and reimposed crushing sanctions that have severely harmed the Iranian economy.
Since then, India, Pakistan, North Korea, and Israel have acquired nuclear weapons, and Iran is almost on the verge of joining the elite list.
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