The US has confirmed that Michael Anton, the State Department’s policy planning director, will lead technical talks with Iranian officials in Oman this Saturday.
Anton will lead dozens of US officials in talks that will focus on the details of a potential nuclear deal before US envoy Steve Witkoff and Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Aragchi hold another round of negotiations.
The negotiations between the US and Iran appear to be advancing despite US officials publicly calling for Iran to end its nuclear enrichment program altogether, a non-starter for Tehran.
President Trump said Thursday that talks were going well but again hinted at military action if a deal isn’t reached.
“I think we’re doing very well with respect to Iran,” Trump said. “We’re having very serious meetings, and there are only two options. And one option is not a good option. It’s not a good option at all.”
The president has been threatening to bomb Iran even though his intelligence agencies recently reaffirmed that there’s no evidence that Tehran is building a nuclear bomb.
Axios reported on Thursday that Iran had proposed the idea of an interim nuclear deal over concerns that an agreement couldn’t be reached within a two-month deadline set by President Trump. The implication is that if a deal isn’t reached in that time, the US will bomb Iran. Responding to the report, Tehran denied that it had offered an interim deal.
According to media reports, Trump declined to back an Israeli attack on Iranian nuclear facilities that would have required significant US support in favor of diplomacy. Another report said Israel was considering a “limited attack” on Iran without US support, which could sabotage the negotiations between Washington and Tehran, but a final decision hadn’t been made.
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Trump doesn't seem to understand that Iran (the IRGC and the Armed Forces) want him to attempt an attack. I say "attempt" because its unclear whether they are at all capable of penetrating Iranian air space considering that their air defenses are even more dense now than they were a few months ago when the last joint US/Israeli attack failed and was canceled midway through the first stage, though in their propaganda they claimed it was a massive success. In reality, they were not able to penetrate Iranian air space and were forced to air launch ballistic missiles from Iraq which is a pathetic and wildly imprecise show of force. The air defenses back then were dense enough as they were, they are even more dense and upgraded now.
Iran has also been testing "Israeli" air defenses and infrastructure security through the Yemeni Armed Forces and they have a complete map of the Zionist colony's vulnerabilities.
Iran wants Trump to attack because this is really the only way to kick the US out of West Asia permanently and dismantle the "Israeli" regime once and for all. The Pentagon knows this, so I expect them to resist any such orders from Trump, but if they are stupid enough to go along with this, they are in for a hell of a ride because ultimately, an attack against Iran is also an attack against Russia and China.
In other words, Trump attacks Iran, and he is igniting war with not only Iran, but Russia and China, both of whom support Iran as a strategic buffer against the West. Iran is fully capable of defending itself (as it did in the 1980s against Iraq, when the whole world except Syria was allied against Iran, and they cut Iran off from the global arms market but still could not defeat them), but they are not going to take any chances.
Iran, Russia, China, and North Korea are the new power bloc against Western hegemony. There is no way for the West to defeat them. They stand to gain the most from any attempted attack against Iran. The US (and its "Israeli" vassal) stands to lose the most and I fully expect that Trump will go down in history as the last (and worst) president of this country should he decide to ignite World War III.
And Trump and Israel want to attack Iran using bunker buster bombs which require bombers to fly directly above their nuclear facilities…! They would be shut down before attempting that even at higher elevation…!
Hezbollah could hit the Israeli air bases so as to prevent the Israeli jet from returning. No runway = no return. The Houthis could get into the act as well. There are all kinds of scenarios that could come about.
Trump also doesn't realize that the IRGC and the Iranian Armed Forces want him to attempt the "military option" because its the only way for Iran to exit the NPT and force Khamenei to cancel or rather modify the existing fatwa, allowing for the rapid development and stockpiling of a nuclear deterrent.
The only reason Iran keeps the NPT is because of the reformists, who are all pro-West. Once Trump attempts an attack, the pro-West factions in Iran will be fully discredited and the nationalists will take over and allow the IRGC to take full control of the government, rather than being relegated to the Deep State.
May we all live in interesting times, because I have a feeling things are going to very, very interesting for those of us here in the West, and there is really nowhere to escape to.
The Pro west ideology has weakened if not died in Iran when Trump exited the JCPOA in 2018…! The strategic alignment with Russia and China is the proof of that…!
Iran and nukes is just smoke and mirrors. They need something to attack Iran and make it none functioning like all the other Mid East countries they have attacked so far.
But the Seventh country you want to trample on might be your Waterloo.
Even with no deal… US survival would be in jeopardy if it decides to attack Iran…!
They already have plenty of excuses and tried tricks, virus their nuke network, even airstrikes but not succeeded…! It's time for another Waterloo…!
Has Michael Anton, an essayist and former wall street executive, passed the Uranium Enrichment 101 For Dummies course before going to Oman tomorrow…?!
All of this is so ridiculous.
Iran is a signatory to the NPT.
For years the IAEA has done inspections.
The Pentagon and the CIA admit that Iran ended the process of procuring nuclear weapons in 2003.
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