Trump will decide whether or not they will go in 2 weeks

While Europe seeks a diplomatic solution with Tehran

With its bases divided on a possible intervention by the United States in the war against Iran, President Donald Trump He has decided to take two weeks to make the decision.

In a message transmitted by the White House Secretary, Karoline Leavitt, Trump said that “based on the fact that there is a substantial possibility of negotiations that may or may not take place with Iran in the near future, I will make my decision to participate or not in the next two weeks.”

After a week of intense attacks between Israel and Iran who have taken the region to the edge of the total war, and when it seemed that US intervention was more than a possibility, Trump’s words seem to have given a chance – perhaps the last one – to diplomacy.

“In the space of a brief phrase, the temperature on possible US attacks against Iran has apparently dropped several degrees,” says Gary O’Donoghue, head correspondent of the BBC in the United States.

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Meanwhile, the Foreign Ministers of Iran, France, Germany and the United Kingdom are planned in Geneva. British Foreign Minister David Lammy said when he arrived in the Swiss city that “in the next two weeks a window opens to reach a diplomatic solution.”

If the meetings take place as planned, they will be the first face to face between Tehran and the Western governments since Israel attacked Iran a week ago.

“The unexpected two -week delay of President Trump when making a decision on whether to intervene militarily gives more weight to these conversations in Geneva: he says he still wants to give the negotiations a chance,” analyzes from Geneva the head correspondent of the BBC, Lyse Doucet.

Before this conflict broke out on June 13, the United States was immersed in bilateral conversations with Tehran to try to reach a new nuclear agreement.

In this Dialogue Washington had left out European countries, whose diplomacy was essential to reach the 2015 agreement that Trump abandoned in his first mandate.