US envoy Steve Witkoff said in an interview that aired Sunday that the US “cannot allow” Iran to maintain a civilian nuclear enrichment program, calling the issue a “red line” for the Trump administration.
“We have one very, very clear red line, and that is enrichment. We cannot allow even one percent of an enrichment capability,” Witkoff said.
Iranian officials have made clear that they’re ready to reduce uranium enrichment levels, but the idea of eliminating its enrichment program altogether is a non-starter, and the US’s insistence on that demand makes a deal unlikely.
Witkoff said the US has “delivered a proposal to the Iranians that we think addresses some of this without disrespecting them” and insisted the US is seeking “a deal that does not include enrichment.”
In response to Witkoff’s comments, Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Aragchi vowed that Iran’s nuclear enrichment program would continue.
“If the US is interested in ensuring that Iran will not have nuclear weapons, a deal is within reach, and we are ready for a serious conversation to achieve a solution that will forever ensure that outcome,” Aragchi wrote on X. “Enrichment in Iran, however, will continue with or without a deal.”
The Trump administration is under significant pressure from Republicans in Congress to settle for nothing less than a deal that eliminates Iran’s nuclear enrichment program. More than 200 GOP lawmakers made the demand in a recent letter to President Trump, which was likely an effort to sabotage diplomacy to bring the US and Iran closer to war.
Trump has been threatening that the US will attack Iran if a deal isn’t reached on its nuclear program, even though his intelligence agencies recently reaffirmed that there’s no evidence Tehran is building a bomb or that Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has reversed his ban on the development of nuclear weapons.
IAEA.Org GOV/2025/10 Page 9 E. Summary
44. The Director General is seriously concerned that the outstanding safeguards issues remain unresolved more than two years after the Board of Governors first decided that it was “essential and urgent in order to ensure verification of the non-diversion of nuclear material” for Iran to clarify those outstanding safeguards issues. These issues stem from Iran’s obligations under its NPT Safeguards Agreement and unless and until Iran resolves them the Agency will not be in a position to provide assurance that Iran’s nuclear programme is exclusively peaceful.
45. Iran has neither provided technically credible explanations for the presence of uranium particles of anthropogenic origin at undeclared locations in Iran nor informed the Agency of the current location(s) of the nuclear material and/or of the contaminated equipment involved. Instead, Iran states that it has declared all of the nuclear material, activities and locations required under its Safeguards Agreement. This is inconsistent with the Agency’s assessments of the unexplained nuclear-related activities that took place at all four of the undeclared locations in Iran referred to above, and of the origin of the uranium particles of anthropogenic origin found at three of these locations: these assessments remain unchanged. The Agency is, therefore, at an impasse with regards to resolving these outstanding safeguards issues.
46. Iran’s unilateral decision to stop the implementation of modified Code 3.1, in contravention of its legal obligations set out in Article 39 of the Safeguards Agreement and in the Subsidiary Arrangements, is having a negative impact on the Agency’s ability to provide assurance of the peaceful nature of Iran’s nuclear programme.
47. The Director General deeply regrets that Iran, despite having indicated a willingness to consider accepting the designation of four additional experienced Agency inspectors, did not accept their designations.
48. There has been no significant progress in the past 21 months towards implementing the Joint Statement of 4 March 2023. In the context of Iran’s agreement that the Joint Statement continues to provide a framework for cooperation with the Agency and for addressing the outstanding safeguards issues, the Director General calls upon Iran urgently to implement the Joint Statement through serious engagement.
49. The significantly increased production and accumulation of high enriched uranium by Iran, the only non-nuclear weapon State to produce such nuclear material, is of serious concern.
Foreign assistance laws prohibit military aid to nuclear-armed countries that are not subject to IAEA inspections.
Foreign Assistance Laws:
Many countries, including the United States, have foreign assistance laws that tie military aid to a country's adherence to non-proliferation commitments. These laws may prohibit or restrict military aid to countries that:
* Do not have full-scope IAEA safeguards agreements.
* Have a history of non-compliance with non-proliferation obligations.
* Are suspected of developing or possessing nuclear weapons.
https://world-nuclear.org/information-library/safety-and-security/non-proliferation/safeguards-to-prevent-nuclear-proliferation
Thank you for that.
This is got to be a simulation, this lunacy can't be real.
We’ve got 59 white Afrikaner ‘refugees’ from an unevidenced genocide while 58K+ dead Palestinians aren't genocide victims. A former head-chopping Al-Qaeda leader now Syrian President who's currently massacring Christians & Alawites was greeted and praised by the US President. And a country without nukes, and a religious and legal ban against acquiring them, is threatened war — then not, then again — by two countries with thousands of nukes, one of which the only to have ever used them.
Corporations are people; money is speech and the richest 1% has more wealth than the rest of the world combined.
It's got to be a simulation.
The picture of Drumpf with MBS and Al-Jolani is sickening.
You are sickening. Crook Biden was in charge when Jolani took over. It's another mess your heroes created.
And that makes that picture less sickening?
A mess that your hero can end immediately…!
It's much worse than that. Al-Sharaa (the real name of Al-Jolani) is a Saudi citizen so the Syrians have a president who isn't even one of them. He wasn't just Al-Qaeda either, he was an early leader of ISIS and is a child murdering rapist and human trafficker. He was always, from the beginning, a US agent from the moment he was converted when he was taken into US custody during his Al-Qaeda days. It was after he and other Al-Qaeda veterans were released that ISIS came about.
In other words, Trump brags about "defeating" ISIS (which was actually done by Russia and Iran), yet it was the US and NATO that created ISIS to begin with. Again, the US is the most barbaric and genocidal regime that history has ever known and it's taking a long time for them to wake up, but with everything that Trump does, he is forcing Americans to confront this basic fact about their regime and leadership.
Trump is also leading US to wrecks and diminishing hegemony which is good for the world…!
I agree with that. In order to reflect adn change course one has to fall on its knees first. And as long as things hopple along it will not happen. Trump is the destroyer from the Hindu trinity where god is the creator, the preserver adn the destroyer to start over again at a higher level.
Trump did defeat ISIS, and he did not create it.
Give us a good laugh, what is thei "everything" Trump does? Things are more stable with Trump there.
ISIS was created by the USA and is still in existence. US paid ISIS warriors to fight in the Ukraine against Russia.
And you thought the gods were angry with us? ha!
The evidence of genocide in SA is solid.
No, it is not.
"And a country without nukes, and a religious and legal ban against acquiring them" –
– a country prepared to continue w/the last civilian nuclear program deal's full-transparency, fully abided-by international inspections –
– "is threatened [with] war."
The IAEA’s Board of Governors often censures Iran through Western-drafted resolutions for its nuclear program even though it is subject to IAEA inspections, and, despite the hype over uranium enrichment levels, there’s no evidence Tehran is seeking a bomb.
Witkoff will not mention Israel’s secret nuclear weapons program, which is not subject to any inspections. This is largely due to the fact that the US does not acknowledge its existence and doesn’t put any pressure on Israel to sign the NPT.
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/58d52da1c3030f39516e2f68e2ba6fe3bd8bcf20221830914e4871052035c571.png
That was suggested earlier. Like, in 2023.
An admission that Israel indeed has the bomb.
The IAEA is controlled by Zionists. Grossi answers to Netanyahu. Iran needs to exit the NPT and kick out the IAEA inspectors, who are all spies for the pissant settler-colony.
The 35-member IAEA Board of Governors for the 2024-2025 period includes: Algeria, Argentina, Armenia, Australia, Bangladesh, Belgium, Brazil, Burkina Faso, Canada, China, Colombia, Ecuador, Egypt, France, Georgia, Germany, Ghana, India, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Republic of Korea, Luxembourg, Malaysia, Mexico, Morocco, Namibia, Netherlands, Norway, Pakistan, Paraguay, Saudi Arabia, Switzerland, Thailand, and the United Kingdom according to the IAEA.
Controlled by Zionists? LMFAO!
Not all the IAEA inspectors and bosses are spies…but all the countries mentioned could produce zionists…!
Not all your comments are ridiculous, but that one definitely is.
A clue…! It's not just West Asia (old ME)…!
The world doesn’t revolve around U.S. conspiracy theories.
"The IAEA’s Board of Governors often censures Iran through Western-drafted resolutions"
That is important. Would you post a link for it? Thanks.
If that is the case, then we cannot enrich, Israel cannot enrich, and so it goes through all countries with nuclear material.
The US believes it has the right to dictate terms to every country on this planet. They have no right. Iran will continue to enrich and if the US decides to attack, they will lose the war and their regional hegemony will end.
Really, the only way to end this nonsense once and for all is for the US to attack Iran and ignite WW3. The arrogance and godless hubris of the genocidal Washington regime knows no bounds. After Russia and China get involved and the American people suffer the worst economic misery they have ever known, and "Israel" is totally obliterated, things will get better in time.
But as they say, it's going to get much worse before everything begins to get better.
I find your comment practical and on point, unfortunately. The simple truth is that the American populace will never learn to shed its undeserved title of the bastion of freedom and democracy until forced to look hard into a mirror and experience what the rest of the planet has experienced under American Rule.
And in order to look hard into the mirror one has to be down in the dumps first. And I don't mean that people get hysterical for not being able to buy a smart phone or disposable diapers.
Some of us have.
The regional story flip flop continues:
West of Atlantic: Iran has to totally give up enrichment.
East of Atlantic: The talks are going well on reducing enrichment level.
This surely is the largest fucking swing of the US diplomatic history…!
"If that is the case, then we cannot enrich, Israel cannot enrich"
sorry, rules for thee, but not for me, because…because!
But… there is… this thing called Exceptional Hypocrisy…!
McCain jokingly responded by singing "Bomb bomb bomb, bomb bomb Iran," to the tune of The Beach Boys' "Barbara Ann"
The neocons have been spoiling for a fight but the profit from fighting goes to a relative few. Trump is bringing peace and prosperity because far more people benefit and there's a lot less blood and destruction. The speech made in Qatar where Trump said the US is not going to be imposing its values on others. That should be a signal to the Mullahs that Trump won't 'sic' the CIA to overthrow them if they open up normal relations with the rest of the World. They will still be allowed to oppress their own people b ut will have to stop exporting terror. The US isn't making cultural demands of Saudi Arabia to do business and Iran could improve its standing in the world in many ways if they would stop their single-minded goal of getting rid of the Jewish state.
Trump gave similar speeches before and during his First Term and then just bombed away without declaring wars. He is the best con ever that existed in politics. Almost all politicians lie but he does it so good that many actually believe his lies over and over again.
Maybe. But I am still disgusted with the other cult who calls Biden a “decent man”.
Yes. Both parties are controlled by Wall Street, oligarchs, Israel and other Lobbyists. They just change the guards from time to time.
When puppet Biden was no longer usable the oligarchs marched over to Trump in summer of 2024. Musk arrived earlier.
Your cons are certainly totally ineffective. You are just another Trump hating leftist whiner, no matter what happens, you will whine about him.
Give us a good laugh, storyteller, where was Trump "bombing away".
“where was Trump ‘bombing away.'”
Syria. When he took office, the US presence there was down to about 300 troops. He “surged” in thousands, and the US Marine Corps fired more artillery shells than had been fired by US forces in the entire US invasion of Iraq.
He also did the “surge” thing in Afghanistan before eventually negotiating the US surrender there, then failing to complete the withdrawal and leaving that job (and the inevitable attendant casualties) for Biden.
He also re-started the US war in Somalia.
Are you seriously suggesting Trump didn't bomb anyone during his first term?
It's actually a praise…!
The fact that you even use the word "mullahs" reveals your bigotry and prejudice. You have no idea what the hell you're talking about. The US and its pissant child murdering genocidal settler-colony calling itself "Israel" are the aggressors, not Iran, nor the so-called "mullahs" that you Zionist bigots love to talk about.
Get this into your head. The so-called "mullahs" don't have any actual power in Iran. The theocratic institutions have no influence over foreign policy and have lost much power over domestic issues since the Khatami and Ahmadinejad eras.
The real power in Iran, the "Deep State" if you like, is the IRGC and the Armed Forces. That has nothing to do with "mullahs." If the US were to end its decades-long siege and sanctions and embargo regime against Iran, the military would shut down the remaining institutions of theocracy and force a secular representative regime.
That's not what the US wants. The US doesn't want "democracy" or "representation" in Iran. It wants what you like to call a "mullah regime" — the problem for the US is that the "mullahs" don't have any power. For the few years when "mullahs" did have power in the 1980s and 1990s, they ruined the country and sacked the economy, looting all the wealth. Ahmadinejad ended all of that permanently. And the US didn't like that at all and they called him a tyrant and a dictator, even though he wasn't any of those things.
And now your beloved pissant Zionist settler-colony is committing genocide and a war of extermination against the indigenous peoples of the region and you have no problem with that. According to you, all the problems of the world are due to Iran and its refusal to normalize with the child killing Zionist regime.
Guess what, idiot? Rafsanjani offered to normalize with "Israel" in the early 1990s and again in the early 2000s. Both times "Israel" refused and told the US to destroy Iran and start a war of extermination against the ethnic Persians and tear the country apart into a bunch of ethnic fiefdoms ruled by US puppet rulers. In 1994, to sabotage Rafsanjani's overtures to "Israel," the Mossad bombed a Jewish cultural center in Buenos Aires and blamed him and Hezbollah for the attack. This is classic Mossad tactics, Zionists killing Jews and blaming Muslims.
I could go on and on and on. Zionism is terrorism and genocide and you are a genocide and terrorism apologist. You are shameless and disgusting. I hope the US and "Israel" attack Iran because that will end US hegemony, bring about the total dismantlement of the Zionist regime and allow the native Palestinians to return to their homes and finally allow the Iranian people to have a representative government since the US will no longer have the power to terrorize the region.
The “Deep State” military you talk about is broken up into many pieces (so that no single piece can ever coupe against the leadership) and each piece reports directly to the Supreme Leader, not to a military leader. The SL leads and all else follows and the SL is currently and constitutionally a cleric.
Perhaps when the current SL dies there may be upheaval in the system. However, the very very rich people who have made a killing off black markets in the current embargoed economy want things to stay the same, unfortunately.
That's also why they want to continue the two party system. It gives people the false impression that they are free and vote in their politicians.
The real rulers and shakers control both parties but allow each one to go bananas on their pet projects come election time. You think Musk, Zuckberg, Wall Street AI gurus care about tampons in boys bathrooms or no tampons in boys bathrooms? But people are free to vote for the person who wants them in or out and it changes nothing as far as the rule of the country is concerned.
That rant reveals your bigotry and prejudice.
Trump is agreement-incapable. I wouldn't trust him to care for a simple houseplant. And I mean, of the artificial variety. He'd still kill it. Everything he touches, sickens and dies.
That makes lots of sense. The difference between Trump and McCain is huge. But the whining Trump haters here are leftist noisemakers.
But, Iran has no single minded goal to eliminate Israel, anymore than Israel has the same goal about them.
A war would be idiotic; but that does not preclude it from taking place.
All eyes on Iran. They are the next target on the neocon's hit list.
Yes, the 7th country in the Middle East to render weak and almost none existing for the West and Israel to take over the region.
Exactly opposite…! The 7th country would survive even with a drop of a nuke…!
OK, yes, but that's what they had in mind – that's all I wanted to say. It worked with the other 6 so far. It may yet change.
I understand…! But it sounded like you’re rooting for it…! That might indirectly make you a pro war…!
It did not sound like that to me. I have been anti-war since WWII on all wars. I don't have "good ones" like the Democrats in the Ukraine or "good ones" like the Republicans in Gaza.
Its onlllly tooo real https://youtu.be/FLGEbtblIlI
Witkoff is a real estate magnate and negotiates like one: make an absurd first offer and gradually back away until your adversary will accept a less-bad offer. After that, if Trump is involved, renege on the agreement.
The Iranians already know that the US is agreement-incapable. I doubt they will be taken in by Witkoff. It will be entertaining to watch.
Pass the popcorn, please.
This is more serious then it appears. Iran is the central node in Russia-China new global Silk Rioad strategy that links tge land locked Asia to open Indian Ocean. And this is the strategy for both Russia and China to avoid the usual maritime bottlenecks be that Maalacca Straits or Baltic Sea or Gibraltar or Suez Canal.
Noticed latest British obsession with aRussian Baltic “shadow fleet” whatever such thestrical words mean.
Like with Ukraine when NATO rain danced for war, making sure Russia has to react. Thus what hapoens when NATO is losing in Ukraine and need a make up for that pig.
But like many losing powers — they want to open another front. Stop North-South corridor!
Remember Hitler after loss at Stalingrad decided to double down — split two armies, one to Baku and smanither from Kharkiv to Kursk.
His generals advised him to go into a defense first shield Europe. But he opred for two new fronts. Stalin ludtenvto his general and started buikding defenses. So in Kursk Hitlers tanks were devastatec by defenses and never made it farther thn 10 kilometers. The other army nebmver made it to Baku gotcstuck in Causases.
This is usuay what hapoens when opening another front to demonstrate the strength but risking much more.
US better not be gosded by the brain dead British still insgining itself an empire vicariously theough big dummy, US
I agree with you that this is a serious issue, and I agree with your other post that the US is not taking the negotiation seriously. Like I said, the US has shown itself incapable of negotiating in good faith, time after time. Many people in the US are still hypnotized by the mainline propaganda, but people in other countries can see the facts as they are.
Yes, this is how you negotiate when you do not wish to negotiate and want to make sure the other party cannot meet the requiements as you just want them rto surrender and relunquish a list HERE.
https://www.presstv.ir/Live
Excellent dialogue and conversation with regard to Iran and it is in English, per our request and which they readily agreed to. We should collectively applaud their efforts!….
Donna. It seems that you get most of your information from Iranian TV. Not the most reliable
And you believe that our information coming out of our TV media is reliable? Any more I trust other information more than the hubris, propaganda and lies coming from our media.
ehwwwh, good call odele, old girl!
btw – time for your next dirty bomb chemo therapy appointment. well what can you do? those filthy arabs would have done it even if we hadn't bombed the shit out of them. can we all at least agree on that?
Sorry Abramawicz. I don’t understand your convoluted, sarcastic Ivy League statement. Perhaps you can lower the level of discourse so that simple people can comprehend
"Witkoff: US ‘Cannot Allow’ Any Iranian Nuclear Enrichment
Iran foreign minister: Enrichment will continue 'with or without a deal'"
Witkoff: 'How about we split the difference:
'The US and Israel bomb your government, your nuclear facilities, your infrastructure, your military, your hospitals, your historical monuments, and your citizens…for as many years as it takes to regime change you…
'…and we worry later about whose hands the high grade dirty bomb uranium you flew out of the country – in response to the US threatening to make war on Iran – ended up in.
'Does that work for you?'
Iran would say take your proposal and shove it up your arse…!
You are a war loving zionist supremacist. Wow you are such a tough guy. You just again verified the claims of genocide.
All nations have a right to a nuclear program.
You ideas do not work the the USA.