{"id":232780,"date":"2025-02-06T01:51:04","date_gmt":"2025-02-06T01:51:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/06\/trump-torpedoed-the-iran-nuclear-deal-now-hes-calling-for-another-one\/"},"modified":"2025-02-06T01:51:05","modified_gmt":"2025-02-06T01:51:05","slug":"trump-torpedoed-the-iran-nuclear-deal-now-hes-calling-for-another-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/06\/trump-torpedoed-the-iran-nuclear-deal-now-hes-calling-for-another-one\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Torpedoed the Iran Nuclear Deal. Now He\u2019s Calling for Another One."},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i3.wp.com\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2025\/02\/05\/multimedia\/05dc-iran1-phjl\/05dc-iran1-phjl-facebookJumbo.jpg?ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"Trump Torpedoed the Iran Nuclear Deal. Now He\u2019s Calling for Another One.\" title=\"Trump Torpedoed the Iran Nuclear Deal. Now He\u2019s Calling for Another One.\" \/><\/div><p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-0\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">President Trump on Wednesday vowed to negotiate a \u201cverified nuclear peace agreement\u201d with Iran, saying he wants to avoid a military clash by reaching a deal that prevents Tehran from acquiring an atomic weapon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. Trump, who withdrew from the 2015 nuclear accord that Iran negotiated with the Obama administration, effectively called for a do-over on Wednesday. In an early morning post on his social media site, the president said the United States and Iran \u201cshould start working on it immediately, and have a big Middle East Celebration when it is signed and completed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cI want Iran to be a great and successful Country, but one that cannot have a Nuclear Weapon,\u201d Mr. Trump wrote.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The diplomatic entreaty by the president came just hours after he announced a very different strategy toward Iran: a return to the \u201cmaximum pressure\u201d campaign that he employed during his first term to threaten the country\u2019s religious leadership with vast economic sanctions and other measures designed to isolate the regime.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-1\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cIran\u2019s behavior threatens the national interest of the United States; it is therefore in the national interest to impose maximum pressure on the Iranian regime to end its nuclear threat, curtail its ballistic missile program and stop its support for terrorist groups,\u201d Mr. Trump wrote in the order he announced on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">That order triggered a harsh response from the Iranian government, which claimed in a statement that Iran is not pursuing a nuclear weapon and that there was no need for economic punishments by the United States.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cMaximum pressure is a failed experiment, and trying it again will lead to another failure,\u201d said Iran\u2019s foreign minister, Abbas Araghchi, according to Shargh, an Iranian news outlet. \u201cIf the main issue is that Iran does not pursue nuclear weapons, this is achievable and there is no problem.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">American intelligence officials have said they believe Iran has not yet made the decision to build a nuclear bomb. But they have said Tehran has continued to enrich fuel for a potential weapon and have <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/02\/03\/us\/politics\/iran-nuclear-weapon.html\" title=\"\">explored how they could build a crude weapon<\/a> in a matter of days or weeks if they decided that it was necessary.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. Trump said repeatedly on Tuesday that Iran should never be allowed to have a nuclear weapon, but he dodged questions about whether the United States would participate with Israel in hypothetical attacks on Iran\u2019s nuclear facilities, where the enrichment and other work has been taking place for years.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-2\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Instead, the president indicated that the new executive order would serve as a threat to Iran that if the country continued to pursue a nuclear weapon or engage in terrorism, the United States would impose sanctions with devastating economic effects.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">But he also said he was \u201ctorn\u201d about the necessity of the order, suggesting that he would prefer to find some kind of diplomatic path to a resolution with Iran.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cEverybody wants me to sign it,\u201d Mr. Trump told reporters as he signed the \u201cmaximum pressure\u201d order in the Oval Office on Tuesday. \u201cI\u2019ll do that. It\u2019s very tough on Iran. It\u2019s what we had before. I\u2019m going to sign it, but hopefully we\u2019re not going to have to use it very much. We will see whether or not we can arrange or work out a deal with Iran and everybody can live together.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cMaybe that\u2019s possible,\u201d he added, \u201cand maybe it\u2019s not possible. So I\u2019m signing this, and I\u2019m unhappy to do it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In his Wednesday social media post, Mr. Trump said that he hoped to reach an accommodation with Iran\u2019s leaders that would allow the United States to avoid the need for either economic or military attacks on Iran.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-3\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cReports that the United States, working in conjunction with Israel, is going to blow Iran into smithereens, ARE GREATLY EXAGGERATED,\u201d he wrote. \u201cI would much prefer a Verified Nuclear Peace Agreement, which will let Iran peacefully grow and prosper.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The president\u2019s desire to engage in negotiations is a turnabout from his first term, when he often derided former President Barack Obama for agreeing to a nuclear deal with Iran. Under that deal, Iran turned over 97 percent of its nuclear material and limited its research and development work, but did not dismantle all its facilities.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. Trump called the Obama-negotiated deal \u201cdefective at its core\u201d and said it was \u201chorrible\u201d and the \u201cworst\u201d deal ever made.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Now, the president appears willing to try again. Iran has also shown openness to a negotiation, but a capacity to build a weapon may be its last real deterrent, after the setbacks of its proxies, Hamas and Hezbollah at the hands of Israeli forces, and the overthrow of Syria\u2019s president, Bashar al-Assad.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Hamas\u2019s military force has been dramatically diminished after 15 months of Israeli bombardment in Gaza following the Oct. 7 attacks that killed about 1,200 people. Israel also leveled a series of attacks against Hezbollah in Lebanon, killing many of its leaders and degrading its ability to attack.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Those developments \u2014 along with Israel\u2019s effective defense against Iranian missile strikes last year \u2014 may have given Mr. Trump more leverage in a negotiation.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/02\/05\/us\/politics\/trump-iran-nuclear-deal.html\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Trump on Wednesday vowed to negotiate a \u201cverified nuclear peace agreement\u201d with Iran, saying he wants to avoid a military clash by reaching a deal that prevents Tehran from acquiring an atomic weapon. 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