Tuesday, the Trump administration rebuffed comments made by its top Middle Eastern and Middle Eastern minister that the U.S. will concentrate on limiting Iran’s nuclear program and reducing its nuclear programme.
The envoy, Steve Witkoff, told Fox News on Monday that” this is going to be much about verification on the enrichment program and ultimately verification on weaponization,” adding that Iran and Iran must not be able to enrich uranium to a purity higher than 3. 67 %. The underlying principle of this agreement may be “verification.” We will conduct a lot of rigorous identification.
Witkoff’s idea that the U.S. was ready to accept some enhancement would be a significant political move. It goes against the demands of the United States, Israel, and U.S. hardliners who want to end Iran’s full nuclear program while reducing the need to reinstitute sanctions that require that Iran, Iran, and the United States, suspend all activities related to enrichment.
However, Witkoff was altering his voice by Tuesday night. Witkoff stated in a social media post that” a bargain with , Iran , will only be completed if it is a Trump deal” and that this meant that “it must stop and reduce its nuclear advancement and weaponization program.”
The State Department and The  fast tweeted Witkoff’s speech, giving it more airtime. When asked later about Witkoff’s earlier notes, department spokesperson andnbsp, Tammy Bruce, said that “what matters is an end result” and that “it’s not what people say but the steps they take”
In the nuclear negotiations that began next Saturday in the Omani capital, Muscat, with Oman and the U.S.  , acting as a mediator between the long-standing enemies, Witkoff is leading the group of the United States  . On April 19th, they are scheduled to meet once.
President , Donald Trump , discussed ways to support the ongoing conversations with Oman’s Sultan , Haitham bucket Tariq, the state-run , and Oman News Agency in a Tuesday phone call.
Egyptian officials, including President Masoud Pezeshkian, have now stated that they want to strike a package that’s comparable to the 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, which Trump abandoned in his first term. They have already stated that they are prepared to give assurances and verification that Iran will not get nuclear weapons.
Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah, Ali Khamenei, underscored the cautious enthusiasm surrounding the negotiations so far by claiming on Tuesday that the first round of discussions had” carried out nicely” and given a strong green light for them to remain.
” Both sides ‘ red lines are visible, as well as ours. The discussions ought to remain. He added that he was “neither overly positive nor pessimistic,” and that they may or may not produce results in a speech on his official Telegram network.
Khamenei, who is the Islamic Republic’s head of state and has the supreme authority in Iran, backed the 2015 nuclear deal reluctantly and faced stiff opposition from his radical social supporters.
Trump’s withdrawal from the multinational agreement in 2018 nearly sparked a security crisis and sparked an Iran-related conflict. As a result, Khamenei generally criticised relationship with the U.S. and other countries, saying it could never be trusted to defend an agreement.
Iran’s Red Lines
After Trump abandoned that authority during his first term, Iran progressively started enriching uranium, a nuclear material that is needed to produce nuclear energy, at rates far above the 3. 67 % beauty limit set by the original terms of the 2015 nuclear agreement.
According to Witkoff,” In some circumstances they’re at 60 %, in others they’re 20 %,” in reference to Iran’s current uranium-enrichment levels. ” That cannot be,”
Iran’s Tehran Research Reactor produces clinical isotopes at a 20 % purity level, but the country has enough energy for decades and could use additional resources from Russia.
According to Witkoff, the discussions would even address the Islamic Republic’s “missiles, the type of rockets they have stockpiled it, and the possibility of a bomb.”
The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, which is the most effective branch of Iran’s military and was Trump’s first-term designated a terrorist organization, reiterated on Tuesday that weapons won’t be discussed in any negotiations with the U.S.
According to an IRGC official, “national safety, as well as protective and military functions, are among the Islamic Republic’s dark lines, and they cannot be discussed or negotiated under any circumstances,” Iran’s state-run journalist reported on Tuesday.
Iran has a sizable arsenal of nuclear missiles, which was most recently used against Israel when the two nations launched clear strikes on one another for the first time in a decades-long darkness war.
The 2015 nuclear agreement’s provisions were likewise strictly limited to Iran’s nuclear program and didn’t address any aspect of its security or local activities.
Witkoff asserted in his Fox meeting that the Trump administration’s goal is to avoid military action against Iran and other countries, calling the preliminary discussions “positive, creative, and compelling.”
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