The US Special Envoy to the Middle East, Steve Witkoff, has expressed optimism about expanding the Abraham Accords, first launched in August 2020. «We think we will have big announcements on countries that are coming into the Abraham Accords», he said on Wednesday in an interview with CNBC. The ceasefire between Iran and Israel, negotiated under President Donald Trump, could pave the way for other Arab and Muslim-majority countries to follow the lead of the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, and Morocco, which normalized relations with Israel in 2020 as part of the Abraham Accords. President Trump also shares this optimism about the future of the process. Speaking in an interview published by Time magazine on April 25, the Republican President said: «I think Saudi Arabia will go into the Abraham Accords».