Trump says “something quickly happens” with Iran as he pushes to negotiate a nuclear agreement
President Donald Trump She signaled that a nuclear agreement with Iran could appear in the near future, just over a month after his administration returned the “maximum pressure” campaign against Tehran.
Trump told reporters on Friday that they were now negotiating with Iran for the final moments and hoping that the military intervention would prove unnecessary.
“It is an interesting time in the history of the world. But with Iran, we have a situation where something will happen soon, very, very quickly,” Trump told reporters on Friday at an oval office. “You will talk about it very quickly, I suppose. I hope we can have a peace agreement. I don’t speak out of strength or weakness, I just say that I would rather see a peace job than others. But others will solve the problem.”
Trump revealed that he sent a letter to the Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who pushed Tehran to agree to a nuclear agreement – or face military consequences, according to a clip published on Friday from an interview with Fox Business, which was supposed to broadcast on Sunday.
Trump returns the maximum pressure campaign against Iran
President Donald Trump revealed that he wrote a letter to the supreme leader of Iranian leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who tried to negotiate a nuclear agreement. (Office of Iranian Supreme Leader via Associated Press)
“I’d rather negotiate an agreement,” Trump told Fox Business. “I’m not sure everyone agrees with me, but we can make an agreement that would be as good as if you had won the military.”
“But now the time is happening, there is time,” he said. “Something will happen in one way or another. I hope to Iran, and write them a letter saying that I hope you will negotiate, because if we have to go military, it will be a terrible thing for them.”
Behnam Ben Taleblu, Democracy Democracy Director of the Iran Program, said that Trump seemed to “put all the possibilities on the table, from good to bad.”
“But the president should be careful,” Ben Talebla said in a statement. “Tehran set a trap for him, hoping that he would lure him in an endless diplomacy used to disparage maximum pressure and damping of the authenticity of the American or Israeli military option as he bought the time to crawl toward nuclear weapons.”
Trump’s remarks also come for days before the 18th anniversary of the retired special agent of FBI Robert “Bob” Levinson from the island of Kish, Iran, who also marks the national hostage and unfair day of detainees.
President Donald Trump returned the “maximum pressure” campaign against Iran in February, imposing heavy sanctions against Tehran. (Office of Iranian Supreme Leader/Wana/Reuters)
The FBI has continued to offer up to $ 5 million awards for information that leads to Levinson’s recovery, while State Department has offered $ 20 million for such information, as well as details of those requested because of his alleged involvement in his disappearance.
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In February, Trump told reporters to believe that Iran was “close” to the development of nuclear weapons, but that he would now prevent the “strong” Tehran to get it. He also signed an executive order that sent the Ministry of Finance to execute “maximum economic pressure” on Iran with a series of sanctions aimed at the sinking of Iranian oil exports.
“They are very strong at the moment and we will not allow them to get nuclear weapons,” Trump said on February 4th.
Trump’s first administration also adopted the initiative of “maximum pressure” against Tehran, issuing greater sanctions and sharper implementation due to violation.
