President Donald Trump said he is confident that Tehran will pursue a diplomatic path to reconciliation.
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The tenuous ceasefire that stopped the withered rocket attack between Iran and Israel appears to be taking place on Thursday before talks next week, potentially leading to more lasting peace.
But President Donald Trump said Wednesday it was not necessary to reach a nuclear weapons agreement with Tehran, saying his decision to blow up Iranian nuclear sites with a massive bunker-destructing bomb has effectively ended the war. He said he hasn’t seen Iran continue to pursue nuclear weapons.
Tehran has repeatedly denied decades of accusations by Western leaders that the nuclear program attempted to develop nuclear weapons. However, Tehran also resolutely refused to abandon its uran richment program.
“I’m going to talk to them next week,” Trump said at a press conference Wednesday. “We might sign an agreement. I don’t know. For me, I don’t think it’s necessary.”
In an interview with CNBC, Trump’s envoy for the Middle East, Steve Witkov reiterated the administration’s position that Iran, which Iran, considered a national sponsor of terrorism, cannot allow the development of nuclear weapons.
“We cannot weaponize,” Witkov said. “It makes the whole region unstable. Then everyone needs a bomb and we can’t get it.”
Trump said he is confident that Tehran will pursue a diplomatic path to reconciliation.
“I tell you, the last thing they want to do is to enrich anything right now. They want to recover,” he said.
The war with Iran with Israel reveals the weakness of Tehran’s leadership and could lead to a peaceful revolutionary change of government, says Iran’s Nobel Peace Prize winner Shirin Ebadi. Ebadi made predictions as it appears that a tenuous ceasefire is being held.
However, conflicts are devastating in Iran, with human rights activists news agency bringing Iran’s death toll to over 1,000. Thousands more were injured in the violent missile attack.
Hundreds of Iranians are being detained on political and security charges as the government works to gain power. Ebadi, a lawyer who won the Nobel Peace Prize for defending human rights in 2003, was a solid critic of Shiite Muslim office facilities that have ruled Iran since 1979.
“Iran and the world saw that and realized what this administration is a paper tiger,” Ebadi told Reuters in an interview in London.
The US intelligence community is consistent. I don’t think Iran is building nuclear weapons. US National Intelligence Director Tulsi Gabbard said a lot when he testified to Congress about Iran’s nuclear program in March.
The US spy agency said “we will continue to assess Iran as not building nuclear weapons, and Supreme Leader Khamenei has not approved the nuclear weapons programme that was stopped in 2003.”
Trump and Netanyahu dismissed the review. Trump doubted the US intelligence reporting agency more than the person responsible for the murder of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi (Saudi Arabia). Meanwhile, Netanyahu has spoken about Iran’s existential nuclear threat to Israel.
Still, I agree with the issue of uranium in the US Intelligence Agency, Trump, Netanyahu and the United Nations nuclear surveillance – the International Atomic Energy Agency – Iran.
All believes that Iran has developed a large stockpile and maintained a nuclear reaction that can be used if it decides to use it in bombs at a well-enriched level. But as General Michael E. Kurira said on June 10, how quickly Iran can “sprint towards nuclear weapons” is also a matter of conflict, with estimates ranging from one week to one year.
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Trump ordered a strike at Iran’s nuclear facility – Operation Midnight Hammer – effectively participated in the war that began on June 13, when Israel began bombing Iran’s nuclear and military infrastructure. Israel said it will help the US coordinate and plan the strike.
Trump said all three sites were “completely gone.” The pentagonal evaluation is inconclusive, and Iran says the nuclear program rarely skips beats. Actual damages and impact on Iran’s programmes could become more clear in the coming days.
Contribution: Reuters
