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JERUSALEM, Israel\u00a0\u2013 Fresh fighting overnight in the Middle East has pushed the Iran negotiations to the edge after U.S. forces launched strikes in response to Iranian drone attacks on vessels in the Strait of Hormuz.<\/p>\n
The U.S. action came on Wednesday when the Tehran regime sent drones targeting commercial and American vessels.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
Iran sent 4 one-way attack drones before American fighter jets shot them down and struck a drone control station near the Iranian port city of Bandar Abbas, according to a report in\u00a0The Wall Street Journal.<\/em><\/p>\n At a Wednesday cabinet meeting, President Trump said that months of pressure and military setbacks have left the regime negotiating from a position of weakness.<\/p>\n “Everything’s gone, and they’re negotiating on fumes,” the president remarked. “But\u00a0we’ll\u00a0see what happens.\u00a0Maybe we have to go back and finish it.\u00a0Maybe we don’t.”\u00a0<\/p>\n *** Please sign up for\u00a0CBN Newsletters\u00a0to ensure you receive the latest news from a distinctly Christian perspective.***<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n Emboldened by strong showings from Trump-backed candidates in the Texas primary runoff elections on Tuesday, Trump rejected claims that midterm election politics is shaping his negotiating strategy.<\/p>\n Concerning Tehran’s decision-making, he stated,\u00a0\u201cThey thought they were going to\u00a0outwait\u00a0me, you know,\u00a0we’ll\u00a0outwait him. ‘He’s\u00a0got\u00a0the midterms.’ I\u00a0don’t\u00a0care about\u00a0the midterms.\u00a0Look\u00a0what happened last night.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n The president also increased pressure on the Gulf nations to join the Abraham Accords, warning that their decision on a signature could shape any future deal with Iran.\u00a0<\/p>\n He said, “I’m not sure we should make the deal if they don’t\u00a0sign. You want to know the truth…”\u00a0<\/p>\n Meanwhile, speaking in Israel at the Jerusalem Prayer Breakfast, Israeli Knesset member Ohad Tal cautioned that there can be no deal with Iran’s current regime.<\/p>\n “And any negotiation and any peace deal with Iran that will basically keep the Iranian regime in its place only means\u00a0delaying the war. .. We understand that this regime\u00a0\u2013\u00a0 the whole essence of its existence \u2013\u00a0is\u00a0to destroy Israel,” Tal insisted.<\/p>\n He also warned that ignoring growing threats in the region would carry dangerous consequences.<\/p>\n “Friends, the Bible teaches us that evil does not disappear when it’s ignored. We must stand up against it and fight,” he exhorted.<\/p>\n At the same gathering, Israeli Diaspora Affairs Minister Amichai Chikli praised evangelical Christians for their strong support of Israel.<\/p>\n He observed, “This movement is so connected to Israel, so connected to the Bible, so connected to Jerusalem. And this is like the extended family of us, the Jewish people.”\u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" JERUSALEM, Israel\u00a0\u2013 Fresh fighting overnight in the Middle East has pushed the Iran negotiations to the edge after U.S. forces launched strikes in response to Iranian drone attacks on vessels in the Strait of Hormuz. The U.S. action came on Wednesday when the Tehran regime sent drones targeting commercial and American vessels.\u00a0\u00a0 Iran sent 4<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":29172,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[5164,1997,4685,7196,9642,9643,7240,3267,2177,174,9204],"class_list":["post-29171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jesus","tag-clashes","tag-deal","tag-fumes","tag-hormuz","tag-muddle","tag-negotiating","tag-renewed","tag-talks","tag-tehran","tag-trump","tag-u-s-iran"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29171\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/29172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}