The leaders who meet for the Canada summit intend to force the US president about his entire Iran strategy.
Macron will assume the role of Europe leader at G7 Photo: Shutterstock
European leaders who meet for a G7 summit with Donald Trump in the Canadian rocky mountains intend to spend the opening day asking Trump to justify their confidence that Israel and Iran will conclude an agreement that will mean “peace soon ”
As the military exchanges worsen and the number of dead increases on both sides, European leaders intend to develop the US president on his entire strategy on Iran, including obtaining a definitive response on whether he will use his influence on the Prime Minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu, to ask for a fire, to ask for a garden.
Trump's largely unfounded remarks about “peace soon” suggest that the US president surprisingly believes that a cessation of fire is imminent.
This would allow the reprogramming of US discussions with Iran on its civil nuclear program, which had been set for Sunday, but were canceled after Israel launched its attack on Thursday evening.
The hostilities between Israel and Iran – and their potential to upset the world economy – have been usurped, at least initially, the G7 summit agenda, which should have been dominated by the Ukraine war disputes and US customs tariffs. In an attempt to avoid public conflict, Canada, the host of the summit, has given up the idea of a common statement and wants the seven leaders to focus on the lines of critical mineral supply, artificial intelligence, china and energy security. In total, 15 world leaders are going to attend the two and a half -day meeting of Kananaskis, south of the Canadian Banff resort.
In a close echo of largely unsuccessful efforts of Europe to cause Trump to be more determined in asking Russia a cessation of fire in Ukraine, European leaders want to see if Trump has a plan to disassemble in Iran. So far, they have found that Washington messages are contradictory, probably reflecting the divisions within the administration.
French President Emmanuel Macron, German Chancellor, Friedrich Merz, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carity, and British Prime Minister Keir Starmer try to converge to a common line on Iran, going beyond general calls for relaxation and restraint. Only Macron participated in a G7 summit.
On the way to the summit, which officially begins on Monday, Merz asked to be given space for diplomacy, but added that Iran cannot have nuclear weapons and urged the country to cease the bombing of civil targets in Israel.
France, Germany and the United Kingdom, previously closely involved in the discussions on the Iranian nuclear program, were set aside by Trump, who insisted on obtaining a bilateral agreement with Iran.
Europe will be cautious
With so many pressing issues on the agenda, Europe will be cautious in deciding how political capital to spend calls for a ceasefire.
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said that Israel's attacks were meant to sabotage diplomacy and that Iran's counterattacks will cease as soon as the Dam of Israel will end. “If the aggression ceases, our reaction will cease it too,” Aragchchi informed foreign diplomats on Sunday in Tehran
The Tehran denied a Cypriot statement that he would have been asked to send private messages to the US or to have told the intermediaries that the discussions that should have taken place in Oman would have been productive.
Trump, as in the past, has blown in the neck praising the offensive of Israel as being excellent and at the same time denying Iran's accusations that the US would have taken part in attacks – an insurance that Iran did not consider credible. He warned Tehran not to expand his reprisals to include US installations or interests.
Speaking after a telephone conversation with Russian President Vladimir Putin, he said: “We can easily reach an agreement between Iran and Israel and we can put an end to this bloody conflict“He did not provide details, but the sensitive point of discussions was whether the US would allow Iran to maintain a residual internal uranium enrichment program.
Iran insisted that, despite the rapid growth of its strongly enriched uranium stock, its nuclear program remains entirely civil. Israel claims that Iran had a secret program that represented a threat to its existence and would have been about to provide terrorist groups access to nuclear weapons.
The Iranian nuclear agreement of 2015, to which Iran wanted largely to return, allowed Iran to enrich at low levels of purity and to be subjected to monitoring.
Does the conflict get out of control?
The fear of Europe is that the conflict gets out of control rapidly and that the agenda of the Israeli government is not only to eliminate any trace of Iranian nuclear sites, but also to try to trigger a change of regime in Tehran, including by the assassination of the army, but also of the political leadership. Israel has officially denied this. Sir Richard Dearlove, the former head of the Mi6, said: “I think the change of the regime is in books. I think the Israelis will eliminate the supreme leader if they have eliminated Hassan Nasrallah, the leader of Hezbollah in Beirut.”
There will be increasing pressures on the current leadership of Iran to come to the conclusion that only nuclear weapons can protect Iran, which will make the West more likely support an attempt to make the theocratic regime.
With “the axis of resistance ” Or his advanced defense strategy in disorder because of attacks on Hamas and Hezbollah and the Israel who enjoys implement on Iran's sky, Tehran is dependent on his rocket stock and the security of his Forti nuclear power plant, buried deep in the mountains, to the northeast of Qom.
