WASHINGTON — Division of Homeland Safety Secretary Kristi Noem had a “candid” dialog with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu over the weekend about Iran’s nuclear capabilities — delivering a message “instantly” from President Trump, The Publish realized.
Noem travelled to Israel and met with Netanyahu on Trump’s behalf, the place the 2 spoke about Israel’s safety and visited the border with Gaza. She additionally provided the US’s condolences for Sarah Milgrim and Yaron Lischinsky, the 2 Israeli embassy employees who have been shot in a terrorist assault in DC final week.
The assembly was a part of Noem’s bigger jaunt to Italy, Bahrain and Poland, the place she additionally spoke to world leaders about advancing US safety pursuits.
Whereas in Israel, “the Secretary and Prime Minister had a candid dialog the place the Secretary reiterated POTUS’s need to convey peace to the area and for Iran to by no means have a nuclear weapon,” a readout of the assembly learn.
Trump has been adamant on Iran not buying a nuclear weapon and has made it his overseas coverage mission to implement the message that the US won’t cease till Tehran abandons the thought.
Whereas the contents of the dialog weren’t solely clear, Israel has reportedly been contemplating hanging Iran’s nuclear services if the US-Iran talks don’t work out.
Nevertheless, Trump has warned Netanyahu that he would reasonably obtain the purpose diplomatically, as a substitute of the “extra extreme and detrimental possibility,” White Home press secretary Karoline Leavitt stated final week.
“President Trump particularly despatched me right here to have a dialog with the prime minister about how these negotiations are going and the way necessary it’s that we keep united and let this course of play out,” Noem advised “Fox & Pals” Monday about her dialog with Netanyahu.
“It was a really candid dialog.”
Trump pulled out of the Obama-era Joint Complete Plan of Motion (JCPOA) in 2018, however has made clear that he’ll guarantee Iran doesn’t obtain nuclear functionality beneath his watch. The president has directed his administration to carry talks with Tehran about stopping their nuclear program — and has threatened to bomb their atomic websites.
“Effectively, we may really blow ’em up. Blow ’em up, or simply de-nuke ’em,” Trump advised Hugh Hewitt on Might 7 about Iran’s nuclear websites. “However there are solely two alternate options, blow ’em up properly or blow ’em up viciously.”
Noem additionally held a candle lighting ceremony and tree planting for Milgrim and Lischinsky alongside Israeli International Minister Gideon Saar.
In Italy, Noem spoke to Italian Minister of the Inside Matteo Piantedosi in regards to the US and Italy working collectively to fight “transnational crime, together with efforts to disrupt human trafficking, smuggling networks, and arranged felony exercise,” the readout stated.
Noem additionally went to Bahrain, the place she met with King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa and spoke to US Coast Guard personnel, and Poland, the place she met with President Andrzej Duda about US bilateral relations.
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