Trump wants to negotiate a nuclear agreement with Iran after imposing “maximum pressure”
US President Donald Trump speaks as he signs documents at an oval office in the White House in Washington, in the USA, February 4, 2025.
Elizabeth France | Reuters
President Donald Trump On Wednesday, he said he wanted to negotiate a nuclear agreement with Iran after he re -set up a “maximum pressure” campaign on the Islamic Republic.
Trump said ua Truth social post This job should start at such an agreement “immediately”. The president said the reports that the US and Israel are together on an attack on Iran exaggerated.
“I would like a much more certified nuclear rest agreement, which Iran will let it grow calm and progress,” Trump said in the post. The President of the United States withdrew in 2018 from a nuclear agreement negotiated by the President Barack Obamacalled A common comprehensive plan of action.
Trump comments come the day after signing a memorandum Re -bringing the campaign of maximum pressure on the Islamic Republic. The Memorandum sent state secretaries and treasuries to spend a campaign for driving Iranian oil sales to zero, including exports to China.
OPEC member Iran is the third largest oil producer in Cartel. Us raw oil and global reference value Brent Futures traded more than 1% lower on Wednesday morning.
On Tuesday, Trump told reporters at an oval office that he was dissatisfied with the signing of the memorandum and hoped that “it was that it would not have to use it at all to any extent.”
“We don’t want to be strenuous to Iran, we don’t want to be strenuous to anyone, but they just can’t have a nuclear weapon,” Trump said. The president said he would be willing to talk to his Iranian colleague when asked by journalists on Tuesday.
Trump’s overture to Iran will be complicated by his unprecedented statements About the future of Palestinians and Gaza belts. The President on Tuesday during a press conference with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that Palestinians should leave Gaza’s belt so that they can now take over the enclave and renew it.
Gaza was decimated after Israel was more than a year -round end of the enclave war, launched in response to a devastating terrorist attack on the militant group of hamas in southern Israel on October 7, 2023. Israel and Hamas agreed to a commemorative day before Trump assumed his duty.
Iran supports Hamas. The Islamic Republic and Israel have launched direct strikes of mutual territories twice last year, raising the fear that the Middle East will descend into a complete regional war.