Trump Rules Out Prompt talks with Iran
..Says Situation Needs More Than ceasefire
By Yadnom Awu/ Asaba
The American President, Donald Trump, today, said he was not interested in prompt talks with the Islamist staff of Iran.
He also said that he thinks that a mere ceasefire would not be enough to end the situation involving Iran.
Trump, fielding questions from reporters aboard Air Force One, said he wanted a “real end” to the situation in the Middle Eastern country.
He did not elaborate on what he meant by ” real end”, but had previously said that only full military might could compel Iran to return to negotiations about its nuclear programme.
Iran had been due to resume talks with America about its nuclear programme but Israel, citing credible intelligence it says it has but refused to share about Iran ‘s nuclear programme, said Iran had reached the threshold of developing the dreaded nuclear bomb,and launched a far- fetched military assault on it.
That was just two days before the Iranians and Americans were to resume their talks,the sixth in the series, and nearly 300 persons have been killed and around 1,000 others wounded in the attacks which are in their fifth day.
Iran, on its part, has responded with strikes by deploying drones and missiles that have significantly breached the Iron Dome air defence system of Israel,and caused reckonable damage in Israel.
By official Israeli accounts, at least 24 Israelis have been killed and about 300 others wounded in Iranian attacks across Israel, especially in the capital, Tel-Aviv, the strategic port city of Haifa, and other places.
The mutual attacks continued today after both countries exchanged high calibre gunfire over night, targeting each other’s strategic military and economic assets.
Israel said it had killed a top General in its overnight strikes on Teheran, while Iran lobbed scores of hypersonic missiles at Israel overnight. assaults.
A United Nations Security Council session on the subject last week failed to reach a decisive decision on the subject after America, in exercising its veto power, voted against the resolution to end the ongoing conflict.
