Former Netanyahu communications director Shlomo Filber assessed that President Trump is deliberately tolerating humiliation by Iranian negotiators because his immediate priority is lowering global oil prices ahead of the U.S. midterm elections, not preserving his reputation. Filber predicted that within 3-4 months, Trump will end the current diplomatic 'honeymoon' with Iran and retaliate, according to an interview cited by Israeli media.
Shlomo Filber, a former director of communications for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and a veteran political analyst, offered a sharply critical assessment of President Donald Trump's handling of negotiations with Iran. In remarks circulated Thursday morning, Filber said Trump's policy zigzag reflects a single overriding calculation: bringing down global oil prices before the November U.S. midterm elections.
"No one knows what goes on in his head," Filber said, "but it cannot be that one morning he woke up and decided that members of the world's largest terror organization would humiliate him. There is no doubt he will get even with them the day after." Filber argued that Trump is prepared to sacrifice some of his reputation in the short term to achieve lower fuel prices, which would ease political pressure from Democrats ahead of the elections.
Filber predicted that the current diplomatic 'honeymoon' with Iran would not last beyond 3-4 months, after which Trump would retaliate. The assessment joins a growing thread of commentary and reporting that has framed Trump's Iran policy as primarily shaped by domestic electoral timing rather than strategic consistency. The Zioneer has previously tracked reports from The Telegraph and other outlets that described lower oil prices as Trump's central objective ahead of the midterms.
Filber's remarks represent an opinion analysis, not a report of a new event or a policy change.
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