{"id":306452,"date":"2025-04-08T06:45:05","date_gmt":"2025-04-08T06:45:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=306452"},"modified":"2025-04-09T07:31:54","modified_gmt":"2025-04-09T07:31:54","slug":"trump-says-the-us-will-hold-direct-talks-with-iran-tehran-says-theyll-be-indirect-negotiations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=306452","title":{"rendered":"Netanyahu \u2018obviously shocked, embarrassed\u2019 on live TV after Trump announces Iran talks: Reports"},"content":{"rendered":"

Press TV \u2013 April 8, 2025<\/strong><\/h1>\n
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Netanyahu and Trump after talks at the White House, April 7, 2025<\/p><\/div>\n

Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu was reportedly \u201ccaught off guard\u201d and visibly stunned during a joint press conference with US President, after Donald Trump revealed that\u00a0talks between Washington and Tehran were set to begin this week.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Trump made the unexpected announcement during the televised meeting in Washington on Monday.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019ll go on Saturday,\u201d the US president said of the planned talks.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have a very big meeting and we’ll see what can happen. I think everybody agrees that doing a deal would be preferable to doing the obvious \u2014 and the obvious is not something that I want to be involved with,\u201d he said of the prospect of launching military aggression against the Islamic Republic.<\/p>\n

Trump even went as far as claiming that the Israeli regime would not seek to be involved in such a scenario either \u201cif they can avoid it.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cHopefully those talks will be successful,\u201d Trump concluded.<\/p>\n

\u2018Shock written all over their faces\u2019<\/strong><\/h2>\n

According to the Israel Hayom<\/em> newspaper, the statement visibly unsettled the Israeli delegation, who were unaware of such upcoming negotiations.<\/p>\n

A senior political source told the daily that while Israeli officials were now trying to downplay the moment by insisting they had anticipated such a move, in reality, \u201cIsrael had no prior knowledge of an agreement between Trump and the Iranians to launch talks.\u201d<\/p>\n

An Israeli official present at the scene said,\u00a0\u201cThe shock was written all over their faces.\u201d<\/p>\n

Netanyahu reportedly responded to the announcement by demanding the complete dismantling, not merely freezing, of Iran\u2019s nuclear energy infrastructure — which vetted international nuclear experts have found no sign of diversion towards military purposes.<\/p>\n

In the meantime, another source confirmed that Netanyahu had been told, during the meeting, that the Israeli regime would be involved in shaping the content of the negotiations, calling this \u201ca very positive aspect\u201d contrary to the surprise.<\/p>\n

The announcement of indirect US-Iran talks came amid reports that the Sultanate of Oman had resumed its role as an intermediary between Tehran and Washington.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, reports said Iran\u2019s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi and US regional envoy Steve Witkoff would hold indirect discussions in the Omani capital Muscat on Saturday.<\/p>\n

Tehran has consistently emphasized that any talks had to be grounded in mutual respect and complete lifting of Washington\u2019s illegal and unilateral sanctions, particularly those imposed under Trump\u2019s so-called \u201cmaximum pressure\u201d campaign.<\/p>\n

Trump\u2019s sudden announcement, meanwhile, overshadowed what was initially billed as a Netanyahu’s trip to discuss various issues, including trade and tariff affairs.<\/p>\n

Israeli media later acknowledged that the true purpose of Netanyahu\u2019s hastily arranged visit was for the White House to brief the Israeli prime minister in person about the upcoming US-Iran talks.<\/p>\n

\u2018Returned humiliated, empty-handed\u2019<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Yedioth Ahronoth<\/em>, another Israeli paper, said Netanyahu had arrived in Washington expecting progress on a 17-percent-tariff Trump had imposed on Israeli goods. Instead, the Israeli official \u201creceived a harsh and even somewhat humiliating\u201d response and left without any tangible achievements.<\/p>\n

It wrote, \u201cThe prime minister did not get the gift he was hoping for \u2014 a declaration from Trump that he would reduce or cancel the 17% tariff on Israeli imports.\u201d<\/p>\n

Trump instead praised Netanyahu for lowering tariffs on American goods and urged other parties to follow suit, promising only to \u201ckeep talking\u201d on the matter.<\/p>\n

On issues concerning the Gaza Strip, where the regime has been waging a genocidal war since October 2023 and also where scores of Israeli captives are being held, Trump made no major policy announcements either.<\/p>\n

The Israeli paper\u00a0noted that Trump gave only vague comments about the captives and said little beyond expressing hope that the war in Gaza \u201cwould end soon.\u201d<\/p>\n

While apparently facing Netanyahu with several such surprises, though, Trump used the meeting to highlight Washington\u2019s military aid to Israel, stating, \u201cThe US gives Israel $4 billion a year\u201d — one billion in addition to the annual American aid.<\/p>\n

The American president also said his controversial plan, announced earlier this year, to make the US \u201cown\u201d Gaza was \u201cback on the table,\u201d and noted that Netanyahu had \u201cconvinced him\u201d some countries, reportedly approached by the Israeli spy agency Mossad, were open to receiving displaced Gazans.<\/p>\n

\u2018Most failed meeting ever\u2019<\/strong><\/h2>\n

The Israeli Walla website described the event as \u201cpossibly the most failed meeting ever\u201d between a US president and an Israeli prime minister.<\/p>\n

\u201cNetanyahu found himself in the Oval Office in a situation he hadn\u2019t anticipated. Trump threw complex political, security, and economic issues at him, and he failed to respond to any of them effectively,\u201d the outlet said.<\/p>\n

The Maariv<\/em> daily also described the trip as ending with an \u201cembarrassing event\u201d that raised more questions than it answered. It reported that Netanyahu, rather than steering the agenda, ended up being a \u201cmere prop\u201d in, what it called, Trump\u2019s stage-managed return to foreign policy relevance.<\/p>\n

Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Initially we thought that Netanyahu had gone to Washington to dictate the terms of Trump\u2019s negotiations with Iran. If so it appears that Trump has disregarded Netanyahu\u2019s \u2019advice\u2019 and acted on his own initiative <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[118,51,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-306452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-7-10-gaza-war","category-Iran","category-Israel_Anti-Semitism_Zionism_and_US-UK_allies"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306452","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=306452"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306452\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":306480,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306452\/revisions\/306480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=306452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=306452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=306452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}