Israel is actively working to obstruct diplomatic understandings and prevent a meeting between Tehran and the White House, according to an international conflict resolution expert.
This development occurs as the U.S. considers diplomatic frameworks that could shift the geopolitical balance in the Middle East. Any rapprochement between the U.S. and Iran would challenge the strategic security assumptions held by the Israeli government.
Dr. Mohamed El-Sharkawy, a professor of international conflict resolution, said that Israel is betting on the failure of these two powers to find common ground. This effort involves both the direct obstruction of diplomatic understandings and a strategic gamble that the two sides will not eventually meet [1].
The timing of these observations comes after U.S. President Donald Trump received a copy of a memorandum of understanding [1]. This document was delivered via mediators from Qatar and Pakistan [1]. Two weeks have passed since the president received the memorandum [1].
"The Israeli actor is always permanently present; whether through obstructing understandings directly, or by betting that Tehran and the White House will not meet in the end," El-Sharkawy said [1].
El-Sharkawy said that the Israeli strategy is rooted in the desire to prevent any convergence between the U.S. and Iran. By hindering these diplomatic channels, Israel seeks to maintain a state of tension or separation between the two nations to ensure its own regional security priorities are not compromised by a grand bargain.
“Israel is betting on the failure of these two powers to find common ground.”
The reported involvement of Qatari and Pakistani mediators suggests a multilateral effort to stabilize U.S.-Iran relations. If Israel is indeed obstructing these channels, it indicates a preference for maintaining the current adversarial relationship between Washington and Tehran to avoid a regional security architecture that might exclude Israeli interests or limit its operational freedom.
