President Donald Trump stated Monday that the U.S. is holding “very high-level” negotiations with Iran relating to its nuclear program, calling the talks “in Iran’s best interests.”
Trump has repeatedly threatened to pursue army motion with Tehran if a deal can’t be made, and Iran had beforehand dominated out having direct negotiations with Washington however held the door open to oblique talks.
He stated that within the interim, Iran has agreed to talk immediately.
“We’re having direct talks with Iran, and they’ve started. It’ll go on Saturday. We have a very big meeting, and we’ll see what can happen. And I think everybody agrees that doing a deal would be preferable to doing the obvious. And the obvious is not something that I want to be involved with,” the president instructed reporters as he hosted Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on the White House.
“Now we’re dealing with them directly. And maybe a deal is going to be made, that’d be great, it’ll be really great for Iran,” he added.
Warnings by Trump of army motion in opposition to Iran had jangled already tense nerves throughout the Middle East after open warfare in Gaza and Lebanon, army strikes on Yemen, a change of management in Syria and Israeli-Iranian exchanges of fireside.
Trump has stated he would like a deal over Iran’s nuclear program to a army confrontation and he stated on March 7 he had written to Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei to recommend talks. Iranian officers stated on the time that Tehran wouldn’t be bullied into negotiations.
During his 2017-2021 time period, Trump withdrew the U.S. from a 2015 deal between Iran and world powers designed to curb Iran’s delicate nuclear work in alternate for sanctions reduction. Trump additionally reimposed sweeping U.S. sanctions.
Since then, Iran has far surpassed that deal’s limits on uranium enrichment.
Western powers accuse Iran of getting a clandestine agenda to develop nuclear weapons functionality by enriching uranium to a excessive stage of fissile purity, above what they are saying is justifiable for a civilian atomic power program.
Tehran says its nuclear program is wholly for civilian power functions.
Like U.S. presidents earlier than him, Trump has stated that Iran can’t be allowed to develop a nuclear weapon.
He instructed reporters that Saturday’s talks with Iran could be at a really excessive stage and he held out the chance {that a} deal might be reached. “We have a very big meeting on Saturday and we’re dealing with them directly,” Trump stated.
The White House National Security Council didn’t instantly reply to a request for particulars.
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