President Donald Trump sent a letter to Iran’s The supreme leader, Ali Khamenei, who seeks a new agreement with Tehran to curb his nuclear program that advances rapidly and to replace the agreement of which America withdrew from his first term.
The Iranian state media immediately picked up Trump’s recognition, given in fragments of a Fox Business Channel interview published on Friday, although there was no confirmation from the Khamenei office that had been received. The interview is presented completely Sunday.
It was not clear how the 85 -year -old supreme leader would react, as former President Barack Obama had kept his letters in Khamenei Secret before the start of negotiations that led to the 2015 Tehran agreement with the world powers.
In comments to Oval Office journalists later, Trump did not directly mention the letter, but instead made a veiled reference, saying: « We have a situation with Iran that something will happen soon. Very, very soon. «
« Hopefully we can have a peace agreement, » said Trump. « I do not speak by force or weakness. I just say I would rather see a peace agreement than the other. But the other will solve the problem. «
It has been suggested that the alternative to a negotiated resolution would be threatening the United States to intervene the military in Iran.
Trump’s opening comes when Israel and the United States have warned that Iran would never let Iran acquire a nuclear weapon, causing fears of a military confrontation, as Tehran will enrich uranium at levels close to weapons, which only sought atomic armed nations.
In an interview with Fox News « » Sunday Morning Futures « , Trump said, » I wrote them a letter saying, « I hope you will negotiate because if we have to go military, it will be a terrible thing. » Said he had sent the letter on Thursday.
Trump’s dissemination comes in the midst of tensions
The White House confirmed that Trump’s letter to Iran’s leaders aims to negotiate a nuclear agreement. The president’s comments at the Oval Office echoed his feelings of the interview, which was recorded on Thursday.
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“I would prefer to negotiate an agreement. I am not sure everyone agrees with me, but we can agree that it would be as good as you were militarily gaining, « Trump told the interview. « But now time is passing. The time comes. Something will happen in one way or another. «
« I hope you will negotiate because, it will be much better for Iran and I think they want to get this letter, » he added. « The other alternative is that we have to do something because you cannot let them have a nuclear weapon. »
Trump did not give details that, if something, he was specifically offered to Iran à la carte.
The movement recalled the writing of Trump’s letters to the North-Corean leader, Kim Jong one, in his first term, which caused face-to-face meetings, but there is no agreements to limit Pyongyang’s atomic bombs and a missile program capable of reaching the continental continental USA.
Iran Long has maintained its program is for peaceful purposes, even when its officials are increasingly pursuing the bomb, as tensions are high with the United States on its sanctions and with Israel as the cessation of fire in its war against Hamas in the Gaza Strip.
North -American Intelligence Agencies evaluate that Iran has not yet started an weapons program, but has « carried out activities that best position it to produce a nuclear device, if it decides to do it. »
Since Trump returned to the White House, his administration has constantly said that Iran must prevent nuclear weapons. A report last month, however, by the United Nations nuclear watchman said that Iran has accelerated his production of arms degree uranium.
Trump’s first term was marked by a particularly concerned period in relationships with Tehran. In 2018, the United States from the Iran Nuclear Agreement with the world powers unilaterally retired, leading to Iran’s economy. Iran retaliated with sea attacks, including one that probably carried out and temporarily reduced the oil production of Saudi Arabia.
Trump also ordered the attack that killed Iran’s maximum general on a Drone strike in Baghdad in January 2020.
The enriched uranium bags of Iran
By virtue of the original 2015 nuclear agreement, Iran was allowed to enrich uranium only up to 3.67% purity and maintain a 300 kilogram uranium stock (661 pounds). The latest report from the International Atomic Energy Agency on Iran’s program placed its bag at 8,294.4 kilograms (18,286 pounds), as it enriches a fraction up to 60% of purity.
Accelerated production of the Iran of Weapons Uranium is more pressure on Trump, as he repeatedly said that he is open to negotiations with the Islamic Republic, while also aiming for Iran’s oil sales with sanctions as part of his « maximum pressure » policy.
Khamenei In a speech last August he opened the door to conversations with the United States, saying that there is no « evil » to relate to the enemy. This came after Iran chosen by the reformist president Masoud Pezeshkian in June, who campaigned for promises of a dissemination in the West.
However, more recently, the supreme leader tempered that negotiations with America are « not intelligent, wise or honorable », after Trump floated nuclear conversations with Tehran. Pezeshkian has followed the same, committing to fulfill Khamenei’s orders.
If Khamenei would accept a letter in question. A pre -attempt in 2019 for Trump to exchange a letter to Khamenei through the deceased Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe saw that the Supreme Leader stated: « I do not consider Trump to personally deny any message, nor do I have any answer for him, and I will never do it. »
But it is not yet clear how Iran will manage the pressure more. The currency of the Islamic Republic, the laugh, has fallen dramatically in value. Unemployment and underestimation remain rampant. In the meantime, women have continued to challenge the laws on the obligatory handkerchief, or Hijab, and continue to go without the head cover, two years after the death of a detained girl, Mahsa Amini, caused protests across the country.
Israel and Iran have also exchanged direct attacks during the Israel-Hamas War, while Tehran’s self-written partners were enclosed after the killings of their leaders by Israel. In Israel itself, officials have suggested that he hit the Iranian nuclear program now, which Trump has threatened while still insisting that he would prefer to reach a diplomatic agreement with Tehran.
On Friday, Iran’s permanent mission to the United Nations in New York said he had not received a Trump letter, reported the state -led news agency.
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Weissert reported Washington. The associated writer Press Amir Vahdat in Tehran, Iran, contributed to this report.
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