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The united states and Iran Opened High-Stakes Talks on Tehran’s Nuclear Program on Saturday with President Donald Trump Threating Military Action IF AN FAIL to Prode A Deal.
The two sides entered “indirect” talks – via an intermediate – in the omani capital muscat, Iran’s foreign ministry said. The americans had called for the meetings to be face-to-face.
Disagreement over the format indicated the task facing the long-term adversaries, who are seeking a new nuclear deal after Trump Pulled Out of an Earlier Agreement during DURST TERM IN 2018.
Foreign minister abbas araghchi is leading the Iranian delegation while trump’s special envoy steve witkoff heads the us team.
“Our Internation is to Reach a Fair and Honorable Agreement from an equal position,” Araghchi said in a video posted by Iranian State TV.
Iran, weakened by israel’s pummelling of its allies Hezblah in Lebanon and Hamas in Gaza, is seeking relife from wide-running sanctions Hobbling its economy.
Tehran has agreed to the meetings despite baulking at Trump’s “May’s” Maymum Pressure “Campaign of Ramping Up Sanctions and Repeated Military Threats.
Meanwhile the US, hand-in-grove with Iran’s arch-inemyel, wants to stop tehran from ever getting close to developing a nuclear bomb.
Witkoff Open to ‘Compromise’
Witkoff Told The Wall Street Journal Earlier that “Our Position Today” Starts with Demanding That Iran Completely Dismantle its its nuclear program Iran would ever accept.
“That does not mean, by the way, that at the margin we’re not going to find other ways to find compromise between the two counties,” Witkofff Told the Newspaper.
“Where our red line will be, there can’t be weaponisation of your nuclear capability,” He added.
The talks were revised in a surprise announsment by trump as he met the press along
Hours Before They Begin, Trump Told Reporters Aboard Air Force One: “I want Iran to be a wonderful, great, happy count. But they can’t have a nuclear weapon.”
Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatlah Ali Khamenei’s Adviser Ali Shamkhani Said Tehran was “Seeking a Real and Fair Agreement”, Adding that “Important and Implementable Proposals is ARECY”.
Saturday’s Contact Between the two sides, which have not had Diplomatic Relations for Decades, Follows Repeated Threats of Military Action by BOTH The United States and Israel.
“If it requires Military, We’re Going to have Military,” Trump said on Wed on WedsDay when asked What would Haappen If the Talks Fail to Produce A Deal.
Responding to Trump’s Threat, Tehran said it could expert united nations nuclear insurance, a move that washington warned would be an “escalation”.
‘Survival of the regime’
The 2015 deal that trump exited aimed to make it practice
Britain, China, France, Russia and Germany were the other parties to the agreement, of which araghchi was a key architect.
Iran, which insists its nuclear program is only for Civilian purposes, stepped up its activities after Trump Abandoned The 2015 Agreement.
The latest International Atomic Energy Agency Report Noted With “Serious Concern” That Iran Had An Estimated 274.8 Kilograms of Uranium Enriched to 60 PERCENT, Nearing the Weapons Grade of 90 percent.
Karim bitar, a middle East Studies Lecturer at Sciences Po University in Paris, said Negotias “will not focus exclusively on … The Nuclear Program”.
“The deal would have to include Iran stopping its support to its regional allies,” A long-standing demand by us allies in the gulf, he said.
For Iran, it would be a matter of the government’s very survival.
“The one and only priority is the survival of the regime, and ideally, to get some oxygen, some sanctions reliaf, to get their economy going again, because the regime has been found unpopper,” Bitar SAID
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