Iran: Trump denounced and abandoned in his first term, the nuclear 2015 deal agreement JCPOA he inherited. He claimed, his planned new deal would be “different and maybe a lot stronger.”
The president blithely asserted on Monday, two days after Witkoff held a first round of talks with the Iranians, that: 1. “We’ve got a problem with Iran. I’ll solve that problem. 2. It’s almost an easy one.” “It’s really simple,”
Trump went on to declare: “They can’t have a nuclear weapon.”
But it’s not “really simple.” This regime in Iran not only “can’t have a nuclear weapon.” It also cannot have the means to attain one. Ever.
The jack-of-all-trades negotiator Witkoff, hitherto unfamiliar with the specifics of Iran’s decades-old rogue nuclear program, does not appear to recognize this, or even to recognize who and what he’s dealing with — untenably cramming: 1. the talks with Iran into his calendar 2. while also still overseeing Gaza negotiations 3. and the Russia-Ukraine war
Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei soberly pronounced on Tuesday that the order of the day was neither exaggerated optimism nor extreme pessimism, while doubtless laughing into his beard at the arrogant amateurism of those Americans.
Iran reportedly offered US a nuclear agreement with the same enrichment cap as the 2015 deal that Trump denounced and abandoned in his first term.
Iran, whose leaders are sworn to destroy Israel, says it does not seek nuclear weapons, but has since December increased by about half its already sizable stockpile of 60%-enriched uranium, and is on track to roughly quadruple its production of uranium ore this year, according to international nuclear watchdogs.
