Only I can fix it · Second term · № 50
No Middle East peace deal 'if we didn't do what we did to Iran'
“Remember this: If we didn't do what we did to Iran—just to make this subject just slightly different—you wouldn't have peace in the Middle East. You wouldn't have a deal signed in the Middle East.”
- Said
- , Joint news conference with Benjamin Netanyahu, Mar-a-Lago
- Subject
- peace in the Middle East
- Topic
- Iran
- Era
- Second term
What happened
He also said "We have peace in the Middle East, and we're going to try and keep it that way." On February 28, 2026 the U.S. and Israel began airstrikes on Iran; the resulting war saw ceasefires on April 8 and June 12, an Islamabad Memorandum on June 17, and a collapse of the ceasefire on July 8, 2026, with fighting continuing into its seventh month by his September 22, 2026 UN address. In Gaza, phase-two negotiations begun January 14, 2026 were deadlocked as of May, and Hamas dissolved its civil administration on July 6, 2026.