President Trump said he is seeking “a real end” to the escalating conflict between Israel and Iran and demanded a “complete give-up” by Tehran — as Israeli forces claim they’ve killed another Iranian senior military commander.
“I’m not asking for a cease-fire, we’re looking at better than a cease-fire,” the president told reporters aboard Air Force One after departing the G7 summit in Canada.
Trump clarified he wants to see “an end, a real end, not a cease-fire” and called for a “complete give-up” on Iran’s end.
Trump also strongly denied contacting Iran in an attempt to broker peace talks after French President Emmanuel Macron said he had.
“I have not reached out to Iran for ‘Peace Talks’ in any way, shape, or form. This is just more HIGHLY FABRICATED, FAKE NEWS!” he raged on Truth Social Monday night.
“If they want to talk, they know how to reach me. They should have taken the deal that was on the table – Would have saved a lot of lives!!!”
The president told reporters during his midnight departure from the G7 that he does not expect Israel to hold back its attacks on Iran.
“You’re going to find out over the next two days. You’re going to find out. Nobody’s slowed up so far,” a CBS journalist quoted Trump as saying on Air Force One. --->READ MORE HERE
President Trump denied French President Emmanuel Macron’s claim that the American had proposed a cease-fire to Iran and Israel in an effort to end the escalating conflict in the Middle East — and added that what he was working on was “much bigger than that.”
“If the United States can achieve a cease-fire, that’s a very good thing,” Macron told reporters at a G7 summit in Canada, around the time the White House announced that Trump would be leaving the meeting of world leaders early because of the boiling tensions between Iran and Israel.
“There is indeed an offer to meet and exchange. An offer was made especially to get a cease-fire and to then kick-start broader discussions,” the French president added. “We have to see now whether the sides will follow.”
But Trump said Macron was greatly mistaken.
“Publicity seeking President Emmanuel Macron, of France, mistakenly said that I left the G7 Summit, in Canada, to go back to D.C. to work on a ‘cease fire’ between Israel and Iran. Wrong!,” the commander-in-chief wrote in a late-night Truth Social post.
“He has no idea why I am now on my way to Washington, but it certainly has nothing to do with a Cease Fire. Much bigger than that,” he added. “Whether purposely or not, Emmanuel always gets it wrong. Stay Tuned!”
The back-and-forth came after Trump warned that “Everyone should immediately evacuate Tehran,” and reports indicate that the president will give the Iranian regime one last chance to sign off on a deal that seeks to prevent it from enriching uranium needed for a nuclear weapon.
The White House and the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs did not immediately respond to The Post’s request for comment. --->READ MORE HERE
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