{"id":242,"date":"2025-06-20T21:21:22","date_gmt":"2025-06-20T21:21:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/242\/"},"modified":"2025-06-20T21:21:22","modified_gmt":"2025-06-20T21:21:22","slug":"israel-trashes-diplomacy-with-iran-as-europeans-meet-tehran-envoy-in-geneva-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/242\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel trashes diplomacy with Iran as Europeans meet Tehran envoy in Geneva \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cAll diplomatic efforts until now were not successful,\u201d Sa\u2019ar said in an interview with the Axel Springer Global Reporters network, of which POLITICO is a member. \u201cThey usually use these talks in order to deceive, in order to waste time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>When asked what Iran must do for a negotiated solution to the conflict, he responded: \u201cWe are not dealing with negotiations with Iran\u201d and reiterated Trump\u2019s call for \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/truthsocial.com\/@realDonaldTrump\/posts\/114699621000737127\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">unconditional surrender<\/a>.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Sa\u2019ar said the Europeans did not invite him to the Geneva meeting, but he spoke with the French foreign minister about it, and may speak with the German foreign minister later Friday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>While Israel has destroyed several Iranian nuclear facilities over the past week, it may need <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/06\/20\/world\/middleeast\/israel-iran-trump.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">American assistance<\/a> to wipe out an Iranian nuclear enrichment site at Fordo, which is buried deep underground.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Sa\u2019ar reiterated multiple times that \u201cAmerica will take its own decisions\u201d with regard to Iran. He also said that Israeli strikes had already achieved significant progress in destroying the Iranian nuclear program \u2014 and \u201cdelayed for at least two or three years the possibility for them to have a nuclear bomb,\u201d he added.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>When asked how long the Israeli operation will last and whether there is a limit, Sa\u2019ar said, \u201cWe will take actions until we fully complete the job.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cAll diplomatic efforts until now were not successful,\u201d Sa\u2019ar said in an interview with the Axel Springer Global&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":243,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[372,113,69,156,117,51,83,99,373,120,374,50,375,52,376,67,131],"class_list":{"0":"post-242","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-benjamin-netanyahu","9":"tag-conflict","10":"tag-donald-trump","11":"tag-france","12":"tag-germany","13":"tag-headlines","14":"tag-iran","15":"tag-israel","16":"tag-israel-hamas-war","17":"tag-kaja-kallas","18":"tag-missiles","19":"tag-news","20":"tag-nuclear-weapons","21":"tag-top-stories","22":"tag-united-kingdom","23":"tag-united-states","24":"tag-war"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114717791577042125","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}