The United States and Iran come according to US President Donald Trump At the weekend into nuclear discussions “almost at the highest level”. “We will have a very big meeting on Saturday,” Trump surprisingly announced on the sidelines of a meeting with Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the White House. Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghtschi wrote on the online platform X, the meeting on the “high level” will take place in Oman. While Trump emphasized that it would be direct conversations, she described Araghtschi as “indirect”. That would mean that intermediaries transmit messages between the two sides.
Regardless of whether the negotiations take place directly or through middlemen, according to the Wall Street Journal, they would be the first between Trump’s officials and Tehran since Trump’s return. Trump had that Iran Recently threatened with massive bombing, Tehran should not agree to a new agreement to limit his nuclear program. “Iran will be in great danger if the negotiations are not successful,” said Trump with a view to the announced meeting on Saturday.
Trump: Iran must not have nuclear weapons
«I think everyone agrees that an agreement is preferable to the obvious. And the obvious is nothing to do with what I want to do, or, frankly, what Israel would like to have to do if it can be avoided, »said Trump. “So we will see if we can avoid it, but that’s a very dangerous terrain. The US President emphasized: “Iran must not have any nuclear weapons-that is not complicated at all”.
During his first term, Trump had unilaterally released the Vienna nuclear pact in 2018, which should limit Iran’s nuclear program and, in return, cancel sanctions. Iran had committed to this in 2015.
After Trump’s termination, Tehran also no longer adhered to the requirements of the agreement, expanded the enrichment of uranium strongly and restricted controls by the international atomic energy authority. Iran uranium currently enhances up to a purity degree of 60 percent, according to experts, more than 90 percent are required for nuclear weapons. Iran always emphasizes that even for religious reasons, nuclear weapons. There are doubts about that.
Trump had already contacted the Islamic Republic in early February with a message of willingness to talk and at the same time hardness. Iran’s top guide Ajatollah Ali Chamenei was not ready to negotiate despite the economic crisis. The United States cannot be trusted.
Iran’s President Massud Peseschkian had recently rejected direct negotiations with the US government, but was open to an indirect dialogue. According to him, Tehran had recently answered a letter from Trump about the Oman. Also Israel’s head of government Netanyahu emphasized that Tehran should not get into the possession of nuclear weapons under any circumstances.
Trump calls Gaza Strip “important piece of real estate”
Regarding the war between Israel and Islamist Hamas Trump again claimed the coastal area in the Gaza Strip. “This is an incredibly important piece of real estate,” he said during his meeting with Netanyahu in Washington. It would be a “good thing” to have a “peace force like the United States there that controls and has the Gaza Strip,” said Trump. Already at the beginning of February he shocked Netanyahu’s side with a similar statement at a press conference.
At that time, Trump had said that the USA could take over Gaza, rebuild and transform it into a “Riviera of the Middle East”. The more than two million Palestinian residents of the area would have to be resettled for this – Trump had brought Egypt and Jordan into play in this context, which, however, rejected such a scenario. According to experts, a forced relocation would violate international law.
Netanyahu’s right -wing extremist coalition partners have long been calling for a recovery and resettlement of the Gaza Strip, from which Israel withdrew 20 years ago. As Netanyahus ally, Trump now said that Israel should not have given up the “property by the sea”. «I don’t understand why Israel has ever given it up? It belonged to Israel, »said Trump. “It should never have been handed over.”
Netanyahu emphasizes war destination
In Washington, Netanyahu advocated “giving people in Gaza the free decision where they want to go”. However, critics in Israel also have doubts as to whether such a decision by the residents of Gaza would be voluntary in view of the great destruction of the coastal area.
After no agreement with Islamist Hamas had been reached on the conditions for an extension of the fire break, Israel had resumed the massive attacks in the Gaza Strip in mid -March. In the meantime, Israel’s army is checking large parts of the largely destroyed coastal strip. For more than a month, Israel has no more vital humanitarian aid goods in the sealed area.
“We are determined to clear all the hostages, but also to eliminate the evil rule of Hamas in Gaza,” said Netanyahu in Washington. With the mediation of the USA, Qatar and Egypt, indirect discussions with Hamas run about a new ceasefire. The Hamas is only ready for the release of the remaining 24 hostages and the handover of the 35 corpses of kidnapped people if Israel agrees to an end of the war.
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