As the shoulders of the end of the war in Ukraine, the Trump administration is transformed into the Middle East to offer progress towards history deals, and the president’s pledge to be a global peace maker.
Trump’s special envoy to the Middle East and the mediator Steve Wittouf issued a sudden announcement at the White House on Wednesday, announcing that he believes that a temporary truce in Gaza is now within reach-and that it may lead to a “peaceful decision for this conflict.”
“I think we are on the edge of sending a new term paper, we hope it will be delivered later today. The president will review it, and I have some good feelings about reaching a long -term decision,” Witkov said.
US officials said they expect the framework to move to Israel and Hamas across the mediators late on Wednesday or early on Thursday, and that the reason for optimism Wittouf is that the administration believes that the conditions for the new proposal to ensure the continuation of the talks after the first hostage and its long stopping for 60 days would attract both parties.
A special envoy to the Middle East Steve Witkev speaks to Mida, where President Donald Trump listens to the White House Oval Office in Washington, May 28, 2025.
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Any break in the war that also provides the opportunity to expand the newly launched effort and supported by the United States to distribute humanitarian aid in Gaza, which was fire this week after the emergence of multiple videos showing widespread chaos in the distribution sites.
Negotiations may still face an arduous battle, especially with Hamas.
The initial peace agreement for three days aims to end the war in Gaza, in which the members of each of the Biden and Trump departments broke out in March after Israel sought to extend the first phase of the agreement to save more detainees from Gaza without following up on more negotiations related to a two -story solution. At the time of the collapse of the deal, the Trump administration supported the proposed extension of Israel.
However, the president has since followed a more severe approach to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and revealed on Wednesday that he told him that he would be “inappropriate” to strike Iranian nuclear facilities.
“I told him that this would be inappropriate to do it at the present time because we are very close to the solution. Now this can change at any moment, it can change with a phone call. But at the present time, I think they want to make a deal,” Trump said of Iran.
He said, “We are doing a very good job with Iran.” “We have made a lot of progress, and we will see.”
Over the past few weeks of direct and indirect negotiations with Iran, the Trump administration officials have grown increasingly about the ability to mediate in a nuclear agreement, although officials say that there are still many major gaps – including whether Branan will be allowed to continue enriching her uranium or if he will have to resort to importing materials to prophetic power.
The administration explored taking a number of steps aimed at showing tangible progress from its talks with Iran, including the possibility of issuing a kind of shared memorandum with Iran and perhaps expanding the American delegation, which has not reached a final decision that has not been reached a final decision.
On negotiations between Russia and Ukraine, the president indicated that it would give Moscow more time before determining whether Russian President Vladimir Putin really wants peace.
“I can’t tell you that. But I will tell you in about two weeks,” Trump said on Wednesday. “We will discover whether or not it clicked on us or not. And if it is, we will respond slightly differently.”
Russia proposed sending a delegation at the level of work to Istanbul in order to present Ukraine with its conditions to achieve a short-term ceasefire next week-which it calls a “peace note”-but Ukrainian officials have benefited from the delay.
“Why are you waiting until Monday? If the Russians have finally put in their” memorandum ” – after ten days of reflections and attacks – it can be transferred to us immediately,” said Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrei Sibha.
Kremlin critics believe in getting rid of direct talks of the battlefield strategy in Russia, where intelligence indicates that Moscow continues to prepare for a warm car that aims to capture large quantities of Ukrainian lands, even with the continued participation in the US -led peace process to end the war.
