On Monday, during his White House meeting with Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, President Trump announced that there will be a high-level meeting between the United States and Iran on Saturday. It’s unclear as to whether the president himself will be in the meeting or whether Iran has agreed to attend.
President Donald Trump on Monday said the U.S. will engage “directly” with Iran in a high-level meeting set to occur this coming Saturday.
“We have a very big meeting on Saturday, and we’re dealing with them directly,” Trump told reporters from the Oval Office while sitting next to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
The announced meeting is the first known time the U.S. will directly engage with Iran since the previous Trump administration, when it withdrew from the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) in 2018.
This presumes, of course,…
