On Wednesday, President Trump said reports about the US and Israel planning an attack on Iran were “greatly exaggerated” and insisted that he wanted a deal with the Islamic Republic instead.
“I want Iran to be a great and successful Country, but one that cannot have a Nuclear Weapon. Reports that the United States, working in conjunction with Israel, is going to blow Iran into smithereens, ARE GREATLY EXAGGERATED,” the president wrote on Truth Social.
“I would much prefer a Verified Nuclear Peace Agreement, which will let Iran peacefully grow and prosper. We should start working on it immediately, and have a big Middle East Celebration when it is signed and completed. God Bless the Middle East!” Trump added.
A day earlier, Trump signed an executive order reimposing “maximum pressure,” referring to the name for the Iran policy of his previous administration, which involved tearing up the 2015 nuclear deal, imposing crippling sanctions, and assassinating Iranian Gen. Qassem Soleimani.
Trump claimed when he signed it that he was “unhappy” to do it and hoped to reach a deal with Tehran. He also acknowledged that Iranian leadership doesn’t seek a nuclear bomb, a fact that goes against the narrative always pushed by the US and Israel about Tehran’s nuclear ambitions.
“There are many people at the top ranks of Iran that do not want to have a nuclear weapon,” Trump said in the Oval Office.
Writing for Responsible Statecraft about Trump’s comments, Iran expert Trita Parsi said he could not “recall any US president ever deviating from the quasi-official American line that Tehran is dead set on getting nukes.”
So if Iran is not building a nuclear weapon, why the sanctions?
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I'm just amused watching "Tim Burns" and "The Prisoner" lash out at each other (Timbit calling Prizz a "right wing nut job" is the height of irony).
"Greatly exaggerated," he says, but conveniently forgets that he and the hawkish people he has surrounding him in his administration (as well as Netanyahu and co.) were the ones screaming that Iran was minutes away from having nukes.
Nonsense, storyteller. It has been the deep state, the CIA, the DoD, and so on, who have for years created this soap opera that the Iranians will have nuclear weapons any month.
Trump and Vance have repeatedly said we will not attack Iran, that it is not in our interest. I will go with them over your fiction.
In this case, I’d disagree … the intel community has repeatedly said that Iran is not working on nukes since 2003. It’s been the politicals (not just the Trump I admin but also the Trump I admin) in Congress and WH who have continued to make these “Iran nuke” claims over the past 20 years.
So you've chosen a fiction you like, is what we're reading from your comment.
“The agreement (JCPOA) was so poorly negotiated that even if Iran fully complies, the regime can still be on the verge of a nuclear breakout in just a short period of time. In just a short period of time, the world’s leading state-sponsor of terror will be on the cusp of acquiring the world’s most dangerous weapons.”
-Donald Trump, 2018
The world's greatest open secret is that Israel has nuclear weapons.
Trump can't disavow that factoid to the Axis of Resistance.
No matter how many times Trump and Vance state the reality, you folks will not get it, because, you do not want to, you decided ahead of time, just like the left does.
How many times has trump said that Iran should be destroyed if they attempt to kill him? But like all right wing nut jobs, you dismiss trump crazy statements and make up your own view.
The Biden-Harris administration never attempted to go back to the Obama-agreement. If President Trump is serious about negotiating a new nuclear agreement with Iran which is fair and which takes Iran's points seriously, I will like that agreement.
“I would much prefer a Verified Nuclear Peace Agreement…"
The JCPOA, the NPT on steroids, was just that.
Very nice of Trump. He also said that he would obliterate Iran if they ever attempted to assassinate him.
"Save Iran, wipe Iran off the map" – that's Trump, he rules by chaos, confusion and multiple ideas, attacks, orders all at the same time. It pleases some, it infuriates others and he celebrates adn brings out the fireworks.
Three reasons why Iran and US will not go to war.
1. Trump is incapable of building a collation of nation needed for such attack.
2. Trump's weekend TV anchor is incapable of putting together an attack plan that would work.
3. Trump backs down when confronted by someone who can hit back. See Iran's missile attack against a USA airbase while trump was President.
3. You've repeated that at least a dozen times. Trump killed a general knowing full well he had no right to kill that general. Iran retaliated well within any limits that would be expected under those circumstances (imagine Iran murdering an American general). Trump did the right thing by not retaliating for a retaliation. He should be applauded for that.
"God Bless the Middle East"
If a god exists, that's absolutely not what it has done.
A one-way US deal would mean a declaration of war from Iran's point of view…!
And if Iran doesn't like the "deal"? That's when the military intervention happens. Or he'll increase sanctions, which are an act of war, and increases the risk of a "hot" war.
Would you buy a used car from this man? How about a used car from his boss in TelAviv?
So he shall feed breadcrumbs equally to everyone but people will still be starving.