Meloni flies to G7, efforts to keep dialogue open

Working to ensure that the channel of dialogue does not fail, even in a moment of high tension, so as to restart a negotiation phase as soon as the war phase is interrupted: with this objective, as leaked from Palazzo Chigi, the government, the diplomatic network and the intelligence services are concentrating their efforts in the framework defined, immediately after Israel's attack on Iran, together with European, Western and more moderate partners from the Middle Eastern and Gulf area, with the United Arab Emirates and Jordan at the forefront.

Giorgia Meloni flew to Canada for the G7, remaining in close contact with Undersecretary Alfredo Mantovano and with the ministers who are closely following the crisis, in a coordination convened on a permanent basis to ensure constant monitoring of the situation. The new war front will inevitably end up at the top of the agenda of the Kananaskis summit, among the official works and bilateral meetings on the sidelines. Meloni should have one with the host, Canadian Mark Carney, and it is yet to be seen whether there will also be meetings with Donald Trump and his European partners, after the telephone conversations of recent days. The summit in the Rocky Mountains of the province of Alberta was supposed to be an opportunity to try to unblock the Ukrainian crisis and the trade crisis between the US and the EU. Instead, it will have to address this other priority above all. With the other leaders, the Prime Minister will reiterate the Italian position. Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani also made this point in his briefing to Parliament, after speaking with his counterparts from Israel and Iran, asking the former to stop the attacks and the latter not to go any further with the reactions. "Enough with the military escalation", was the message from Rome, whose posture follows a common direction with other major European capitals. Tajani clarified that Tehran has crossed "the red line", reporting information from Israeli intelligence according to which "in less than six months Iran could have 10 atomic bombs, and over 2,000 missiles to launch them, towards Israel and beyond". "In the face of a nuclear threat, there can be no ambiguity", the Foreign Minister remarked, underlining "Israel's right to guarantee its own survival".

These are delicate hours, in which the situation of Italians in Iran is being monitored (at the moment there is still no talk of evacuation, it is explained in executive circles) and the risks of a widening of the conflict are being analyzed, through whirlwind rounds of phone calls and through diplomatic and intelligence information. We are also trying to understand whether Israel's plan is to achieve an overthrow of the Iranian regime. Certainly, diplomacies around the world have recorded a certain coldness on the part of Arab countries towards Iran. No one, government circles reason, at this moment has the power or influence to decide the evolution of the conflict. But promoting de-escalation is the commitment on which Rome is focused: we must make sure "not to sever the thread of dialogue". Also on the front of the US-Iran negotiations on nuclear power, which Italy remains ready to host again although now the scenario has become even more uncertain than a few days ago.