Kananaskis, Alberta – June 16: US President Donald Trump goes out to talk to journalists at the G7 leaders on June 16, 2025 in Kananaskis, Alberta.
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Friday, the best diplomats in the United Kingdom, France and Germany are pressure for an eleventh hour diplomacy with Iran in Geneva, while Washington weighs the possibility of joining the Israeli military campaign against Tehran in the next two weeks.
Iran and Israel have been exchanging shots since last week, in the last culminating point of tensions that have simmered since October 2023. Israel supported by Tehran Act independently.
The conflict has risked a new escalation since the start of the week, in the midst of signals that the United States – historically a relative allies and supplier of weapons of Israel – could intervene militarily against Tehran.
“Based on the fact that there is substantial chances of negotiations that may or may not occur with Iran in the future, I will decide or not in the next two weeks,” said US President Donald Trump, according to a statement read Thursday by White House spokesman Karoline Leavitt.
After a meeting on Thursday with American Secretary of State Marco Rubio and the special envoy for the Middle East Steve Witkoff, British Foreign Minister David Lammy said The three “discussed how an agreement could avoid a conflict of deepening” and that “window now exists in the next two weeks to obtain a diplomatic solution”.
“There is no room for negotiations with the United States until the Israeli aggression stops,” Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi, who is expected to attend talks in Geneva.
Trump’s aversion to Iran’s nuclear program was a central point of its state activity in the two terms. The head of the White House withdrew the United States from the Complete Complete Action Plan (JCPOA) during his first presidency, tightening the node flowing on Iran chests through a series of financial sanctions and linked to strict oil.
The self -proclaimed “peacemaker” has so far pursued a second nuclear program agreement since the start of his second term, initially expressing a preference for a diplomatic breakthrough – people and European officials are now hoping to strike.
“In the United States, [there are] Many political leaders who are convinced that we must not both make mistakes in the past. What we have seen in Libya, what we have seen in Afghanistan, what we have seen in Iraq, we do not want to see reproduced, “said French Minister of Foreign Affairs, Jean-Noël Barrot in a television interview with French media, according to a CNBC translation.
In particular, the United Kingdom, France and Germany – alongside the Iranian allies of Russia and China – were previously involved in the JCPOA with Washington and Tehran.
The French Minister of Europe and Foreign Affairs Jean-Noel Barrot, the British Foreign Minister David Lammy, the German Minister of Foreign Affairs Johann Wadephul and the High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and the Security Policy, Kaja Kallas, poses for photo in the offices of June 2025. Tensions de-scalade after the Israeli attacks aimed at breaking the Iranian nuclear program.
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The markets have been shaken by the possibility that the conflict destabilizes the Middle East richer in oil and potentially relying in the largest economy in the world, attenuating investors on a flight to package assets and a wider concentration on defense companies and initiatives.
