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After Trump’s devastating defeat in the midterm elections, he turned to China to pressure Iran and said that if peace talks continued to proceed, he would rarely order a second attack.
trump After the defeat in the midterm elections, the President started looking for a way.iran New Perspectives on War and the Russo-Ukrainian War. It is understood that Trump has ordered Treasury Secretary Scott Besant to contact China, hoping that Beijing will use its influence on Tehran to end the Iran war, and China has also sent a message to Iran.
Washington Post Senior foreign affairs columnist David Ignatius recently wrote an article stating that since the domestic public is dissatisfied with Trump’s launch of the war in Iraq, which has caused oil prices and domestic prices to rise, ending this war has become the most urgent and thorny issue for Trump at present.
He wrote an article saying that Besant was in touch with China at the behest of Trump after the defeat of the Republican Party last week. Trump and Vice President J.D. Vance both publicly blamed the defeat on the Iran war.
In addition, according to CNN, President Trump said on the 8th that as long as negotiations to end the conflict continue to progress, he is very unlikely to order a new wave of attacks on Iran.
CNN quoted Trump as saying in a phone interview: “It depends on whether they sign a very strong deal or not… The answer is that it’s very unlikely that that will be necessary.”
CNN did not say what questions it asked Trump at the time. Trump also said that the United States has identified Iranian infrastructure targets that can be attacked, including 38 bridges that “we can literally destroy within an hour.”
At the same time, Agence France-Presse reported that Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said on the 8th that since the “shock” caused by the US midterm elections, mediators who were committed to promoting a peace agreement between Iran and the United States have not come forward.
Trump’s Republican Party faced a crushing defeat in the midterm elections. “It will take some time before the mediators can resume shuttle tours when the environment is more favorable,” Arracchi said in an interview on state television.
Ignatius pointed out that despite Trump’s threats to resume military action after the election and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s preparations to escalate the situation, leadership of the administration’s Iran foreign affairs is still held by Vice President Vance. Vance last month sent a goodwill letter to Iran’s hardline security chief Mohsen Rezaei. Vance wrote candidly after the midterm elections, “The reason we lost the election was because of the war.”
Trump’s strategy of using China to put pressure on Iran was not a temporary move. In September this year, when Trump met Chinese President Xi Jinping in Washington, he asked for his help on the Iran issue.
Officials familiar with the matter revealed that Xi Jinping privately agreed that Iran should never possess nuclear weapons. The issue is expected to come up again at the Shenzhen summit on November 18, when Russian President Vladimir Putin will also attend.
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The report reported that Trump believes that the Iran war has caused domestic discontent due to rising oil prices and commodity prices, and the Republican Party’s disastrous defeat in the midterm elections has made him eager to find political and diplomatic solutions that can defuse the situation as soon as possible.
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Trump is said to have instructed Treasury Secretary Besant to contact China, hoping that Beijing would use its influence over Tehran to push Iran to move toward ending the war; China has also given relevant messages to Iran.
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In an exclusive phone interview, Trump said he was very unlikely to order a new wave of strikes as long as talks to end the conflict continue to make progress, and stressed that the need for force depends on whether Iran signs a stronger deal.
