Trump Rejects Netanyahu’s Push for New Strikes on Iran
Dec. 31—With the Zionist/NATO war propaganda machine doing its best to say the opposite, sources close to the White House report that President Donald Trump totally rejected Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin “Bibi” Netanyahu’s plans for new strikes on Iran, whether on its missile-building facilities or on its nuclear program, telling him that he was going to handle this in a different way—with a new nuclear and broader “peace” deal with Tehran.
“Bibi did not come out of that meeting with Trump a happy camper for a number of reasons,” said the source, “but he should have expected Trump’s response on Iran, because it has been consistent since the President ended the 12‑day war with Tehran, that saw the U.S. join Israel in strikes on its alleged facilities, which Israel claimed were engaged in producing nuclear weapons. Trump has said there would be no more military action, but that, with the help of other actors, including the Russians, he would make a deal with Iran. All Bibi is doing with his rhetoric is strengthening the forces inside Iran who are opposed to ending its isolation. So, Trump told him to cool it, which Bibi is not likely to do, as he needs to make Iran a boogeyman, so that he has someone to keep fighting, so that he can cling to power.”
Iran’s Domestic Crisis and the Appeal of a Broader Peace Deal
The source said that the White House is following very closely the recent mass actions, with people in the streets protesting the government’s policies, which have bankrupted it and threaten social programs, and now, with declining oil prices, have collapsed the nation’s currency. The scale of the protests, even if wild Western claims are discounted, is unprecedented in a nation that acts to discourage dissent.
Other sources with decades of experience in the region say that the Iranian people want peace and economic development, and care little for a nuclear weapons program. Nuclear power and producing more energy are more to their liking, so that there is a basis for a broader “peace” deal beyond just halting the nuclear weapons program. For example, Iran continues to suffer intense drought conditions, which could be eased by the type of nuclear‑powered desalination plans that are part of what is called the Oasis Plan, first developed to meet the needs of the region, including Iran, back in the 1970s by the economist and statesman, the late Lyndon LaRouche, and which has been revived recently by his wife Helga Zepp‑LaRouche and her Schiller Institute, and has broad support, including in Palestinian circles.
Sources report that the White House is "intrigued" by the Oasis Plan, as it comes in as if above the crisis, but with a certain force of destiny that says, well, why not try this. Trump now believes that the key to getting a nuclear deal is to offer something broader, that would encourage peaceful use of nuclear energy and development that could meet the aspirations of an Iranian people who have been trapped for nearly a half‑century in stupid Western sanctions.
Netanyahu Fears a Shift Away From Endless War
All this, said the source, scares the shit out of Bibi, who can only live in a past where all is focused on wars and more wars, which yield more wars. Israel eventually will cease to exist in such a regime of endless wars. One is reminded of the insightful comment of a great Israeli, former Israeli Ambassador to the United Nations Abba Eban, who once told a colleague that Israel was like a hand grenade, tossed around by the United States and the British. “There is not much future in being a hand grenade.”
Meanwhile, in Iran, several political leaders realize that the country’s future lies in stepping outside the box that Israel and its Western backers put it in, where it sponsors terrorist threats to the Israelis like Hamas and Hezbollah, and has little to do other than keeping others, especially the Israelis, at bay. And they point to the track record of betrayal, as with the last nuclear deal, cancelled by Trump, when they reached out to the Western powers, including the United States. But the sage political leaders still see in Trump someone who is not part of the old way of doing things, despite his being dragged by Netanyahu into last summer’s attack on Iran.
Iranian Foreign Minister’s Letter Signals Openness to Diplomacy
In an open letter to Trump published Dec. 30, Seyed Abbas Araghchi, Iran’s Foreign Minister, said Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu “achieved his dream of dragging the U.S. into a military confrontation with Iran,” but an increasing number of Americans see Israel as “not an ally but a liability.”
He rejected claims that Iran had been weakened or deterred, saying recent fighting had exposed what he described as the myth of Israeli invulnerability.
“The U.S. administration now faces a dilemma,” he asserted: “it can continue writing blank checks for Israel with American taxpayer dollars and credibility, or be part of a tectonic change for the better.”
Araghchi reiterated Tehran’s long‑standing position that Iran does not seek nuclear weapons, framing this stance not as a tactical choice, but as a matter of strategic doctrine based on “religious, ethical, and security considerations.” He criticized the U.S. withdrawal from the 2015 nuclear deal during Trump’s first term, arguing that the “maximum pressure” campaign hardened Iranian resistance instead of forcing concessions.
Araghchi said Iran remained open to serious negotiations, provided talks were based on mutual respect and included sanctions relief. He added that regional shifts and the involvement of third‑party mediators had created what he described as a narrow but significant opportunity for diplomacy, warning that Iranian restraint should not be mistaken for weakness.
(Iran had earlier said that the direct line of communication to the White House through Special Envoy Steve Witkoff remained open, if unused recently. Reports in the Zionist press sewers in the United States, such as The New York Post, claimed that these lines had been cut, as Iran was declaring “total war” on the U.S., Europe, and Israel—a claim based on twisting remarks in an interview in state media with Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian.)
“For those willing to go where no one has gone before, there is a brief window of opportunity,” he concluded. “Fortune favors the brave, and it takes a lot more guts to break an evil cycle than to simply perpetuate it.”