Source: The American Conservative
by Andrew Day
“Here we go again. President Donald Trump says he wants to make a deal with Iran and avoid war. And he’s sending negotiators to Oman for talks with Iranian diplomats on Friday. Sound familiar? Ahead of scheduled U.S.–Iranian talks in Oman last June, Israel launched a surprise attack on Iran, instigating a war that Trump later briefly joined with a bombing raid on Tehran’s main nuclear facilities. Not quite eight months later, the world anxiously waits to see if recent history will repeat itself, this time with America leading the charge. Israel, of course, is worried that Trump won’t attack. ‘It’s really the Israelis who want a strike,’ a U.S. official told Axios. ‘The president is just not there.’ If Trump strikes Iran rather than negotiating a deal, that will mean Israel got its way.” (02/05/26)
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/iran-is-trumps-israeli-influence-test/