President Donald Trump on Thursday urged all Arab countries to join the Abraham Accords, a U.S.-backed diplomatic framework aimed at normalizing relations with Israel.
During President Trump’s first term in office, four Muslim-majority countries normalized trade and diplomatic relations with Israel. The U.S. president now wants all countries in the Middle East to endorse the accords.
Extending the Abraham Accords to countries across the Middle East has gained significance after a joint U.S.-Israeli strike in June destroyed Iran’s nuclear weapons program, President Trump said. “Now that the nuclear arsenal being ‘created’ by Iran has been totally OBLITERATED, it is very important to me that all Middle Eastern Countries join the Abraham Accords,” he wrote on Truth Social.
So far, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Morocco, and Sudan have endorsed the Abraham Accords. In the next phase of the diplomatic push, President Trump wants the leading Arab Gulf state, Saudi Arabia, to enter the framework agreement. “It’s my fervent hope, wish and even my dream that Saudi Arabia will soon be joining the Abraham Accords.” It will be a special day in the Middle East,” the president said during his visit to Saudi Arabia in mid-May.
President Trump’s move to establish peace between Israel and its neighbors comes as Canada and some European countries have announced plans to unilaterally recognize a ‘Palestinian State’ in Gaza and areas controlled by the Palestinian Authority (PA). Supporting the ‘Palestinian statehood’ is seen as a measure to punish Israel for pushing ahead with the military operation to free hostages and eliminate Hamas in Gaza.
President Trump’s remarks on the ‘obliteration’ of Iran’s nuclear weapons program come as Tehran executes one of its nuclear scientists, claiming he worked for the Israeli intelligence agency Mossad. The sentencing highlights the paranoia within the Mullah regime’s inner circle and Mossad’s supposed reach deep inside the Iranian military and security establishment.
The Jerusalem Post reported:
Rouzbeh Vadi, who state media said was executed on Wednesday for giving information on Iran’s nuclear program to Israel’s Mossad spy agency, was himself a nuclear scientist, state broadcaster IRIB claimed on Thursday.The judiciary’s news outlet Mizan had said on Wednesday that Vadi was convicted of spying for Israel and passing on information about a nuclear scientist killed in Israel’s June airstrikes on the Islamic Republic.”Key facilities were Fordow and Natanz (uranium enrichment plants), for which I sent information. I told them I knew this and that about Fordow, they (Mossad agent) told me to send everything,” Vadi said in what IRIB described as a confession video it ran on the air.
As part of the ongoing operation ‘Gideons Chariots,’ Israeli troops uncovered a half-mile-long terror tunnel in northern Gaza. They also discovered Hamas missile launchers hidden in a World War II British cemetery, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) disclosed Thursday.
“A kilometer-long Hamas tunnel was demolished by combat engineers during recent operations in the area of Gaza City’s Daraj and Tuffah neighborhoods,” The Times of Israel reported. “The IDF says the troops also found rocket launchers in a cemetery in the area.”
“The troops located weapons in the area, including missile launchers, pistols, and ammunition. An additional missile launcher and launch canisters were also found in a cemetery in Daraj Tuffah,” the IDF said in a statement.
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