USA want to talk to Tehran about nuclear program

Surprising announcement

USA want to talk to Tehran about nuclear program

The US President had threatened Tehran with bombing if it did not agree to an agreement to limit his nuclear program. Now he announces talks – and warns of failure.

According to US President Donald Trump, the United States and Iran come together “almost at the highest level” at the weekend. “We will have a very big meeting on Saturday,” Trump surprisingly announced on the sidelines of a meeting with Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the White House. Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghtschi wrote on the online platform X, the meeting on the “high level” will take place in Oman. While Trump emphasized that it would be direct conversations, she described Araghtschi as “indirect”. That would mean that intermediaries transmit messages between the two sides.

Regardless of whether the negotiations take place directly or through middlemen, according to the “Wall Street Journal”, they would be the first between Trump’s officials and Tehran since Trump’s return. Trump had recently threatened Iran with massive bombing if Tehran should not agree to a new agreement to limit his nuclear program. “Iran will be in great danger if the negotiations are not successful,” said Trump with a view to the announced meeting on Saturday.

“I think everyone agrees that an agreement is preferable to the obvious. And the obvious is nothing that I want to have to do, or, frankly, what Israel wants to do if it can be avoided,” said Trump. “So we will see if we can avoid it, but that’s a very dangerous terrain.” The US President emphasized: “Iran must not have any nuclear weapons-that is not complicated at all.”

During his first term, Trump had unilaterally released the Vienna nuclear pact in 2018, which should limit Iran’s nuclear program and, in return, cancel sanctions. Iran had committed to this in 2015.

After Trump’s termination, Tehran also no longer adhered to the requirements of the agreement, expanded the enrichment of uranium strongly and restricted controls by the international atomic energy authority. Iran uranium currently enhances up to a purity degree of 60 percent, according to experts, more than 90 percent are required for nuclear weapons. Iran always emphasizes that even for religious reasons, nuclear weapons. There are doubts about that.

Trump had already contacted the Islamic Republic in early February with a message of willingness to talk and at the same time hardness. Iran’s top guide Ajatollah Ali Chamenei was not ready to negotiate despite the economic crisis. The United States cannot be trusted.

Iran’s President Massud Peseschkian had recently rejected direct negotiations with the US government, but was open to an indirect dialogue. According to him, Tehran had recently answered a letter from Trump about the Oman. Israel’s head of government Netanyahu also emphasized that Tehran should under no circumstances get into the possession of nuclear weapons.

With regard to the war between Israel and Islamist Hamas in the Gaza Strip, Trump again claimed the coastal area. “This is an incredibly important piece of real estate,” he said during his meeting with Netanyahu in Washington. It would be a “good thing” to have a “peace force like the United States there that controls and has the Gaza Strip,” said Trump. Already at the beginning of February he shocked Netanyahu’s side with a similar statement at a press conference.

At that time Trump had said that the USA could take over Gaza, rebuild and transform it into a “Riviera of the Middle East”. The more than two million Palestinian residents of the area would have to be resettled for this – Trump had brought Egypt and Jordan into play in this context, which, however, rejected such a scenario. According to experts, a forced relocation would violate international law.