European Leaders to press Trump on Israel-Iran Strategy in G7 Summit
European leaders are planning to corner Donald Trump at the G7 summit in Canada this week. They want straight answers about his Iran strategy, especially after he keeps saying “peace soon” while Israel and Iran are busy bombing each other into the ground.
The summit kicks off on Monday in the Canadian Rockies, and European leaders aren’t buying Trump’s optimistic talk about an imminent ceasefire. Israel looks like it wants to destroy not just Iran’s nuclear program but pretty much everything else, too. Meanwhile, the death toll keeps climbing on both sides, and nobody seems ready to back down.
French President Emmanuel Macron, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer, and Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney all want to pin Trump down on whether he’ll actually use his influence over Netanyahu to stop the fighting. Right now, they’re getting mixed signals from Washington, and that’s making everyone nervous.
The whole Israel-Iran mess has basically hijacked what was supposed to be a summit about Ukraine, trade wars, and other global issues. Canada even scrapped plans for a joint statement because they knew the leaders would never agree on anything with this crisis happening.
Trump’s Mixed Messages Leave Allies Confused
Trump’s been all over the place with his statements about the conflict. One minute, he’s praising Israel’s attacks as “excellent,” the next, he’s denying that America has anything to do with them. He told Iran not to target US facilities while also threatening them with military action if they do.
After talking to Putin, Trump claimed he could “easily get a deal done between Iran and Israel” and end the “bloody conflict.” But he didn’t give any details about how he’d pull that off. The main issue has always been whether the US will let Iran keep some uranium enrichment going at home.
European leaders tried the same pressure tactics with Trump over Ukraine, and that didn’t work out very well. Now they’re wondering if they should spend their political capital trying to get him to demand a ceasefire from Israel, or just accept that he’s going to let this war play out however it wants to.
Iran’s foreign minister said their attacks will stop as soon as Israel stops bombing them. “If the aggression stops, our reaction will also end,” he told diplomats in Tehran. But with Israel having air superiority over Iran, they might not be in any hurry to stop.
Europe Fears Conflict Spiraling Out of Control
What’s really worrying European leaders is that this might not just be about stopping Iran’s nuclear program. There’s growing talk that Israel wants regime change in Tehran, even though they officially deny it.
Sir Richard Dearlove, who used to run Britain’s M16 spy agency, thinks regime change is definitely on the table. This kind of escalation could push Iran to actually create nuclear weapons as a last resort for survival. If that happens, Western countries might end up supporting efforts to topple Iran’s government entirely, which could turn this regional conflict into something much bigger and messier.
Iran’s whole strategy of using proxy groups like Hamas and Hezbollah is falling apart. With Israel dominating the skies over Iran and picking off their allies one by one, Tehran is running out of options. They’re basically down to their missile stockpile and hoping their underground nuclear facility stays hidden. The G7 leaders meeting in the Canadian mountains this week know they need to figure out a common approach fast.
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