The United States want to negotiate with Iran on a nuclear program

The American envoy for the Middle East Steve Witkoff said on Sunday that the United States wanted to negotiate with Iran about his nuclear program. “We don't have to solve everything militarily,” he argued in an interview with Fox News.

According to Witkoff, the president's administration Donald Trump She is ready to check that the diplomatic agreement is possible. “If not, the alternative is not very good,” he added.

The US wants to negotiate with Iran

In another Sunday interview, the US President's adviser for national security Mike Waltz stated on CBS television that Iran must “completely give up” the desire to have nuclear weapons “in a way visible to the whole world.”

In 2015, Iran concluded an agreement with the United States, Russia, China, Great Britain, France and Germany and agreed to limit his nuclear program in exchange for the abolition of international sanctions. In 2018, Donald Trump, a year after the start of his first term of office as the president of the USA, withdrew from this agreement. Tehran warned the agreement for another year, after which he began to withdraw from his obligations.

On the one hand, he has signaled the exacerbation of the course against Iran, from the one hand again, among others By further limiting the possibilities of exporting Iranian oil, and in the other hand he publicly spoke about the need for negotiations and expressed hope of taking them by the Iranian side several times.

“We don't have to solve everything militarily”

On Sunday, foreign minister Iran Abbas Aragczi announced that his country “does not oppose” conversations with the United States. However, he made it clear that negotiations would not be able to take place until Washington changed his approach to Tehran. “We don't have to solve everything militarily,” Witkoff argues in a Sunday interview with Fox News.

In mid -March, President Trump sent a letter to the Iranian authorities with a proposal to negotiate about the new nuclear agreement. He was to give the Iran authorities to make a decision and threaten that in the event of rejection of this proposal United States The sanctions that Trump imposed at the beginning of February as part of the “maximum pressure” campaign on Iran. At that time, Axios warned that in the event of Trump's rejection by Tehran, one should seriously take into account that the attack of American or Israeli forces on the Iran's nuclear installations.

The spiritual and political leader of Iran Ayatollah Ali Chamenei rejected the offer, describing it as “deceptive”, but Aragczi announced on Thursday that his country will soon answer both threats and the possibilities contained in the letter. He suggested that in the current situation it is impossible to return to the 2015 agreement in its original form. The agreement soothed international sanctions in exchange for limiting the nuclear program by Iran and enabling access to foreign inspectors to Iranian nuclear facilities.

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