Representatives of Israeli and U.S. intelligence agencies met recently in Washington to evaluate different scenarios regarding a new escalation against Iran, with Mossad’s Roman Gofman and CIA Director John Ratcliffe participating and planning to travel afterward to Miami to meet White House Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff, according to an Axios report.
The dialogue took place amid ongoing debates over the strategy to adopt toward Tehran. Washington’s policy has been accompanied by economic pressure measures and trade restrictions aimed at promoting new negotiations with Iran.
In that context, Trump posted on social media that the United States does not need an agreement with Iran, that those days are long gone, and that Washington holds hundreds of billions of dollars of Iranian money as well as the Strait of Hormuz.
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent says he will not be intimidated by Iranian death threats.
He confirmed he moved from his Washington home to a military base on Secret Service instructions.
Bessent said the threats show that Operation Economic Outcast against Iran is working.
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Meanwhile, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is promoting greater pressure on Tehran, a vision that contrasts with his political rival Gadi Eisenkot, who declared he would not allow a lack of oversight over the head of government during the political transition process.
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Iranian authorities have reiterated that they do not feel intimidated by warnings of a possible conflict and have publicly expressed reservations about commitments proposed by Washington in previous negotiation processes. Tehran maintains that any diplomatic progress must be preceded by compliance with several conditions: the end of conflicts on the various regional fronts, the lifting of sanctions, and the return of frozen Iranian assets, which it considers essential to resume substantive talks.
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