The American president quickly brushed aside speculation that he was cutting short the gathering to chase a cease-fire, insisting the matter was Id much bigger than that.
A day ahead of schedule and still in his blazer, Donald Trump had sped out of the G7 in Canada and vaulted aboard Air Force One, leaving Emmanuel Macron to announce he was weighing a truce between Israel and Iran.
“There is in fact an offer to meet and exchange,” Macron clarified while speaking to media along the summit promenade. A special offer was made to establish a cease-fire before initiating more extensive negotiations.
We must now see if both sides will actually follow through.
The French leader framed the plan as a step in the right direction. Right now I believe negotiations need to restart and that civilians need to be protected.
He added that he did not expect anything to shift in the next few hours, yet since the US has promised to find a cease-fire- and because America can lean on Israel- well, maybe tomorrow morning brings good news.
Trump, however, insisted to reporters that his early departure was due to obvious reasons, only later turning to Truth Social to say the trip home had nothing whatever to do with any diplomatic lullaby for the Middle East.
In that same post he clarified that the real matter forcing him back to Washington was much bigger than the fragile deal Macron had sketched out on camera.
During a morning session, Trump told advisers that back-channel messages from Tehran signaled Irans willingness to ease tensions.
No fan of G7 photo ops, he hopped on Air Force One and returned to Washington, thus sidestepping awkward questions from allies about Ukraine and trade.
The news followed two hectic days in which several Gulf capitals-Sharjah, Riyadh, and Abu Dhabi-had shuttled between Washington and Tehran, hoping to lock in a cease-fire and revive stalled nuclear talks that Iran had shelved after Israels surprise strike.
Earlier, in a three-way phone call, the foreign ministers of France, Germany, and Britain pressed Irans senior diplomat, Abbas Araghchi, to refrain from retaliating against U.S. forces or other regional partners.
They also urged Tehran not to follow through on its threat to exit the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, a step that could point toward bomb-making should it remain unable to shield itself from Israeli raids. The ministers asked Iran to keep working with U.N. inspectors and to drop plans for scaling back cooperation with the IAEA.
The three-way group cautioned that any further military steps would completely shut Tehran out of the last road leading back to talks.
Before the call, some European diplomats privately admitted there were no safeguards that Trump would push Israels prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, to halt an air campaign that was already dismantling large parts of Irans security network.
Tehran declared that negotiations over its nuclear program could only resume once Washington ordered an end to the bombings. European officials later acknowledged they still could not tell whether Trump genuinely sought a diplomatic accord or had, in effect, and out of public view, locked himself into supporting Israels military drive to erase that program.
A statement from Group of Seven leaders late on Monday called for calm yet repeated Israels right to self-defense and tagged Iran as the main wellspring of instability and terror in the region.
We will keep a watchful eye on the fallout for global energy markets and are prepared to coordinate with like-minded partners to maintain stability, the communiqu concluded.
In a blatant social media tirade, Trump called for all Iranians to leave Tehran, a city of almost ten million people, indicating that he is still failing to control Israel’s hard-line leaders.
Israel has been urging the White House to sign on to its offensive, yet no signal has surfaced that Donald Trumps return to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue sets the stage for American combat. Both the Oval Office and the Pentagon brushed aside rumors of imminent involvement, insisting instead that US forces remained in a defensive posture.
Backing a cease-fire, French President Emmanuel Macron labeled any force-led bid to topple a regime a grave blunder.
Addressing reporters at the G7 summit, Macron remarked, Anyone who thinks that hammering a nation with outside bombs somehow rescues it against its will is simply mistaken.
