Unbelievable he does everything the Russians want.
Trump announces 'direct talks' with Iran The United States is going to start direct talks with Iran and a very important round of talks will take place on Saturday. This was announced by US President Donald Trump after a meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the White House.
Denny Baert, Belga
After the meeting with Netanyahu, Trump did not immediately come up with big news about Gaza or the import duties that the US is imposing on many countries.
The news came from a different angle: according to Trump, the US would enter into "direct talks" with Iran, the common enemy of the US and Israel .
According to the American president, there will be a "very big" meeting between Washington and Tehran on Saturday. The talks will be held "directly" and "almost at the highest level" between the countries, Trump said. He could not say where the talks will take place.
New nuclear deal? Trump said diplomacy was "the preferred route" after Iran rejected any direct dialogue with the US. Trump indicated he was aiming for a new nuclear deal with Iran, "because they can't have a nuclear weapon".
If the talks with Iran are not successful, Trump added, it would be "a great danger to Iran," he said, threateningly.
Iran said direct negotiations were pointless Trump threatened to bomb Iran last week after Iranian leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei rejected a proposal from Trump to hold direct talks on Iran's nuclear program.
Iran has said it wants to negotiate a nuclear deal with the US, but only indirectly through mediation by Oman. Negotiating directly with the United States "doesn't make sense," Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said Sunday, responding to President Donald Trump's proposal to talk about Iran's nuclear program. If diplomacy fails, Trump threatens to bomb the country.
“Direct negotiations with a party that constantly threatens violence (...) and that expresses contradictory positions through its various leaders are pointless,” Araghchi declared.
On Saturday, Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian said his country wanted to negotiate with the US "on an equal footing." It was not made clear at the time whether Tehran would also accept direct negotiations.
Trump withdrew from deal In 2015, under US President Barack Obama, Iran signed a historic agreement with the permanent members of the UN Security Council: the US, China, Russia, France, the United Kingdom, and Germany.
In that nuclear deal, Iran promised to be more open about its nuclear program. In return, the US promised to ease some of the sanctions against the country. The agreement was welcomed worldwide, except in Israel.
But in 2018, when Trump was first in power, the US withdrew from the agreement, because according to Trump, Iran would no longer adhere to the conditions. Trump also reimposed strict sanctions on Iran, which hit the Iranian economy hard.
In response, Iran began to gradually violate the terms of the deal, including by rebuilding its stockpile of enriched uranium, refining it to higher fissile purity and installing advanced centrifuges to speed up production.
