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Trump says Saudi officials willing to join Abraham Accords, has had ‘very good conversations’ with them
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleLazar Berman is The Times of Israel's diplomatic reporter
US President Donald Trump says that Saudi officials indicated a willingness to join the Abraham Accords “as recently as like yesterday.”
“I had some very good conversations,” he says in an interview broadcast on Fox Business Network. “They couldn’t have done it during the war,” he adds.
He also says the Saudis couldn’t have normalized relations with Israel “with Iran as a power,” a reference to the blows Tehran suffered during the June Israeli-US bombing campaign.
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