Trump attends the NATO summit, while Iran overwhelms an agenda

On Tuesday, President Trump will go to the NATO boats in The Hague, the Netherlands, hours after he announced that Iran and Israel have reached a The ceasefire agreement.

Several hours after the ceasefire, Mr. Trump told the reporters that he had left for the summit that both Israel and Iran had violated it. After that, after talking to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the President said that Israel would not bomb Iran again, and that “the ceasefire is in effect.”

The president was hoping to obtain a commitment from NATO allies during the summit to spend at least 5 % of GDP to defense. But one day before his arrival, the coalition has already agreed to reinforce defensive spending, according to Matio Whitaker, the US ambassador to NATO. He told reporters in a briefing on Monday that the result of the leadership of Mr. Trump, NATO was “on the right track” to make this “historic commitment” by 5 %.

During the trip to the Netherlands, Mr. Trump to publish A supernight from NATO Secretary -General Mark Root congratulates him on his actions in Iran and on the levels of new defense spending in NATO.

Root wrote: “(R) raises you for your decisive work in Iran.” It was called “really unusual” and said it “is something that no one dared to do. It makes us all safer.”

“It was not easy, but we were all signed for 5 percent!” Root said, and from the new spending, “We were all signed for 5 percent!” She described it as “an important moment for America and Europe,” and told him, “You will achieve something that an American president cannot achieve for decades.” A NATO spokesman confirmed that Root had written the text to Mr. Trump.

The United States spent nearly 3.4 % of GDP in defense in 2023, but the president said it believed the United States should not have a 5 % target.

“We have long supported NATO, in many cases, I think, we pay nearly 100 % of the cost,” he told reporters on Friday. “Therefore, I don’t think we should do so, but I think NATO countries should be, at all.”

However, there is no clear timetable for commitment by 5 %, and reaching that threshold can extend to the thirties of the last century of some NATO countries, which leads to criticism that the promise is 5 % can be empty.

Democratic Senator Jin Shaheen from New Hampshire, in The Hague with a group of Senate members of the two parties, expressed their optimism about the Allied’s efforts to raise their defensive spending.

“I think everyone is united around this goal and is trying to know the speed we can get there,” Ed Okif, who is also in the Netherlands.

Regardless of the conflict in the Middle East, Russia’s war on Ukraine is still an important issue for NATO members. It was not yet clear whether the United States would support the language it seen in Russia as the main threat to NATO in the statement – avoiding the answer directly to the correspondent question on this topic.

“The negotiations related to the statement are still ongoing,” he said. ” ”

He said that the United States “calls for restraint and (urged) both sides to avoid escalation”, and continued to say that the United States “participates at the highest levels” and supports direct talks between Russia and Ukraine.

Shaheen said that she wanted to see the United States, “she was subjected to a lot of pressure on Russia and Vladimir Putin,” she added, “I think we need to pass the difficult penal law that we have in the Senate, which has 82 sponsors.”

Shortly before the summit, on Saturday, the United States carried out strikes targeting Three Iranian sites It is believed to be a key Iranian nuclear program. The move raised concerns about a wider war, but Iran’s response on Monday was limited. Iran launched More than ten missiles in US base in QatarMost of them were intercepted, and no injuries were reported, US and Qatari officials said.

Mr. Trump described the revenge strikes as “very weak”, and said in another publication on social media that he wanted “to thank Iran for giving us an early notice, which made it possible to waste any life.” The supreme leader in Iran, Ali Khounai, also indicated in a post on social media after the Iranian strikes, “We have not harmed anyone.”

Within hours, Mr. Trump announced that Iran and Israel would implement the ceasefire and the war will soon be placed.

NATO summit It will contain one and a half hours, instead of multiple sessions. A senior US official told reporters in a phone call on Friday that Mr. Trump was planning to meet separately with many world leaders on the margin.

The president left the summit early on Tuesday morning and returns on Wednesday.

NATO, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, is the largest defense alliance in the world, where 32 members, including the United States, were formed in the wake of World War II, and have grown since its last additions in Finland in 2023 and Sweden in 2024. Ukraine’s aggressive assistance was Russia though

Ed Okifand

Olivia Victoria Gazaand

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Gabriel Ak

He contributed to this report.