Axios reported on Wednesday that President Trump gave Iran a two-month deadline to reach a deal on its civilian nuclear program in a letter he recently sent to Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
The report, which cited two sources briefed on the letter, said it was unclear if the countdown to the deadline began when the letter was delivered or if it would start at the beginning of negotiations. But US-Iran talks are unlikely as Iranian leaders have rejected negotiating in response to President Trump’s so-called “maximum pressure campaign.”
Axios reporter Barak Ravid, a former IDF intelligence officer, wrote in his report that if Iran doesn’t negotiate, “the chances of US or Israeli military action against Iran’s nuclear facilities would dramatically increase.”
The news of Trump’s deadline for Iran comes as the president is warning that he will blame Iran for attacks launched by the Houthis even though it is widely believed the Yemeni group acts independently and wouldn’t take orders from Tehran, a fact that’s been acknowledged by US officials.
Khamenei rejected Trump’s letter when Iran received it last week, calling it a “deception” meant to make it seem like the US was the reasonable party and that Iran was rejecting negotiations for no reason.
Last year, Khamenei appeared to give Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian to pursue direct talks with the US. But in the face of increasing US sanctions and threats from Trump, both leaders are now ruling out negotiations.
Despite all the hype around Iran’s nuclear program, there’s no evidence that Tehran has decided to build nuclear weapons. Even President Trump has acknowledged that Iranian leadership does not want a nuclear bomb.
“There are many people at the top ranks of Iran that do not want to have a nuclear weapon,” President Trump said when signing an executive order to reimpose “maximum pressure” on Iran.
In response to Israeli aggression, there have been growing calls inside Iran for Khamenei to reconsider his fatwa that prohibits the development of nuclear weapons, but there’s no sign he’s considering reversing it.
Bluff. The US cannot defeat Iran. The US can start another Forever War, but it will finally lose that war. The cost of doing this over and over, bigger each time, will finally do so much damage to the US that our position in the world will be lost.
Biden was a fool. Now Trump is doing much the same. It is the neocons around both of them. Today is not 1938, and if there is a "Germany" that lies and starts wars, that would be the US.
The damage is progressing at the speed of light…!
It should be perfectly clear by now that Genocide Don is bound to take orders from BB (AIPAC), nothing else matters. If told to charge up that hill, he'll order his marines to do it.
… BB has the Epstein tapes.
The US couldn't win in Iraq or Afghanistan. If the orange 🤡 starts a war with Iran, it will be much worse for America. Iran is much more powerful than both Iraq and the Taliban.
It is all a tad ironic, when it was Trump who pulled out of the nuclear deal, the JCPOA in May 2018. Does he think everyone has dementia like him?
Iran outlived Trump1 and they definitely would outlive Trump2…!
Iran and the US did reach a deal — and Trump unilaterally tore it up. Now he wants a redo?
Even Kings won't ask for that…!
That is what trump does.
“Axios reporter Barak Ravid, a former IDF intelligence officer, wrote in his report that if Iran doesn’t negotiate, “the chances of US or Israeli military action against Iran’s nuclear facilities would dramatically increase.””
And if they take said military action, the chance of Iran actually developing nukes increases to near certainty.
That goes without saying…!
The ruling shysters in Washington are the real danger for the blue planet and life on earth.
Lusting for power and wealth and fame is what motivates them.
Two months would be more than sufficient for Iran to build nuclear bombs and test them out…!