Trump doesn’t raise risk of Iran-Israel war, Davos told

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Trump doesn’t raise risk of Iran-Israel war, Davos told

Saudi Arabia’s foreign minister says he does not see Donald Trump’s new administration increasing the risk of an Israel-Iran conflict, addressing an issue the region has feared since the start of Israel’s war in Gaza.

Prince Faisal bin Farhan Al-Saud also said in Davos that he hoped President Trump’s approach to Iran would be met with a willingness by Tehran to positively engage with the US administration and address the issue of its nuclear programme.

“Obviously a war between Iran and Israel, any war in our region is something we should try to avoid as much as possible,” Prince Faisal said during the World Economic Forum’s annual meeting in the Swiss mountain resort.

“I don’t see the incoming US administration as contributory to the risk of war, on the contrary, President Trump has been quite clear he does not favour conflict.”

Fears of war between Israel and Iran increased after the Tehran-backed ************ ****** group led a deadly cross-border raid on Israel on October 7, 2023, triggering an Israeli military offensive that dragged Iran’s allies, including Lebanon’s Hezbollah and Yemen’s Houthis, into confrontation with Israel.

Israel unleashed a devastating war against ****** in Gaza, and Hezbollah in Lebanon, decimating the military structure of both groups, shattering Iran’s network of influence in the Middle East and upending powerful alliances that led to the ousting of Syrian president Bashar al-Assad, another Iran ally.

Fifteen months after the October attacks, a ceasefire deal between Israel and ****** was reached.

Prince Faisal was speaking at the World Economic Forum’s annual meeting in Switzerland on a panel along with Qatari Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani, who helped broker the ceasefire agreement.

The Qatari premier said the decisive involvement of Trump’s Middle East envoy, Steve Witkoff, had made a profound difference and led to significant progress in reaching the deal.

He said he hoped the ************ Authority would return to play a governing role in Gaza once the war with Israel comes to an end, adding that Gazans – and not any other country – should decide how the enclave is to be governed.

How Gaza will be governed after the war was not directly addressed in the deal between Israel and ******.

Israel has rejected any governing role for ******, which ran Gaza before the war, but it has been almost equally opposed to rule by the ************ Authority, the body set up under the Oslo interim peace accords three decades ago that has limited governing power in the West Bank.

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