Trump links Abraham Accords to any deal to end war with Iran

WASHINGTON, May 26 (APP):US President Donald Trump “mandatorily” requested on Monday that all countries involved in the negotiations to end the US war against Iran sign the Abraham Accords.

“By copy of this TRUTH, I am asking my Representatives to begin, and successfully complete, the process of signing these Countries into the already Historic Abraham Accords,” Trump posted on his Truth Social account.

The accords are a series of diplomatic, economic and security agreements created with U.S. influence during Trump’s first term, originally between Israel and the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain, followed by Sudan, Morocco, and more recently, Kazakhstan.

They were framed as an effort to promote cooperation among countries in the Middle East and North Africa, and the administration saw them as partly paving a path toward full ties with Israel.

Trump’s request for the Muslim and Arab states to join the Abraham Accords was first reported by Axios on Sunday.

He said the expansion of the accords “should start with the immediate signing by Saudi Arabia and Qatar, and everybody else should follow suit.”

“It may be possible that one or two have a reason for not doing so, and that will be accepted, but most should be ready, willing, and able to make this Settlement with Iran a far more Historic Event than it would, otherwise, be,” he added.

Axios, citing a US official, said the leaders of the countries Trump spoke to reacted to his normalization request with silence.

“There was silence on the line and Trump joked and asked if they are still there,” one of the officials was quoted as saying.

Apparently undeterred, the US president further claimed in his Truth Social post that “numerous” of the leaders he spoke to “would be honoured,” as soon as a deal with Tehran is signed, “to have the Islamic Republic of Iran as part of the Abraham Accords.”

Trump suggested on Sunday that Iran could “perhaps” join the agreements after a deal is reached.

“The Abraham Accords have proven to be, for the Countries involved (The United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Morocco, Sudan, and Kazakhstan), a Financial, Economic, and Social BOOM, even during this time of Conflict and War, with the current Members never even suggesting leaving, or taking so much as even a pause,” he continued.

Suggesting that he was indeed envisioning a vastly expanded Abraham Accords framework over simply establishing ties between Israel and its neighbors, Trump declared that “nothing in the past, or in the future, will surpass” it.

“Therefore, I am mandatorily requesting that all Countries immediately sign the Abraham Accords, and that, if Iran signs its Agreement with me, as President of the United States of America, it would be an Honour to have them also be part of this unparalleled World Coalition,” wrote the president.

Such a coalition, he said, would ensure the Middle East becomes “United, Powerful, and Economically Strong, like perhaps no other area, anywhere in the World!”

He added that he had asked his representatives — reportedly Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner — to immediately “begin, and successfully complete, the process of signing these Countries into the already Historic Abraham Accords.”