{"id":18269,"date":"2025-04-09T07:35:58","date_gmt":"2025-04-09T07:35:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/trump-wants-an-iran-nuclear-deal-but-it-must-be-better-than-obamas\/"},"modified":"2025-04-09T07:35:58","modified_gmt":"2025-04-09T07:35:58","slug":"trump-wants-an-iran-nuclear-deal-but-it-must-be-better-than-obamas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/trump-wants-an-iran-nuclear-deal-but-it-must-be-better-than-obamas\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Wants an Iran Nuclear Deal, but It Must Be Better Than Obama\u2019s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-0\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In 2016, running for president and pressed for details on how he would handle some of the world\u2019s knottiest security issues, then-candidate Donald J. Trump had a simple formula for defanging the Iranian nuclear program.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Barack Obama\u2019s negotiating team, he said, should have just gotten up from the table and stormed out. The Iranians would have come begging. \u201cIt\u2019s a deal that could\u2019ve been so much better just if they\u2019d walked a couple of times,\u201d <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/03\/27\/us\/politics\/donald-trump-transcript.html\" title=\"\">Mr. Trump told two reporters<\/a> from The New York Times. \u201cThey negotiated so badly.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Now, at a moment the Iranians are far closer to being able to produce a weapon than they were when the last accord was negotiated \u2014 in part because Mr. Trump himself upended the deal in 2018 \u2014 the president has his chance to show how it should have been done.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">So far, the gap between the two sides appears huge. The Iranians sound like they are looking for an updated version of the Obama-era agreement, which limited Iran\u2019s stockpiles of nuclear material. The Americans want to dismantle a vast nuclear-fuel enrichment infrastructure, the country\u2019s missile program and Tehran\u2019s longtime support for Hamas, Hezbollah and other proxy forces.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-1\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">What is missing is time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cIt is essential that we reach an agreement quickly,\u201d said Senator Jeanne Shaheen of New Hampshire, the top Democrat on the Foreign Relations Committee, who called Mr. Trump\u2019s decision to pull out of the Iran nuclear deal a \u201cserious mistake.\u201d \u201cIran\u2019s nuclear program is advancing every day, and with snapback sanctions set to expire soon, we are at risk of losing one of our most critical points of leverage.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Snapback sanctions allow for the quick reimposition of United Nations sanctions against Iran. They are set to expire Oct. 18.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The pressure is now on for Mr. Trump to get a deal that is far tougher on Iran than what was agreed to during the Obama administration, which will be the measuring stick for whether Mr. Trump reached his own goals. For leverage, his administration is already threatening the possibility of military strikes if the talks don\u2019t go well, though it leaves unclear whether the United States, Israel or a combined force would execute those strikes.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-2\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Karoline Leavitt, the White House press secretary, promised Tuesday there would be \u201chell to pay\u201d if the Iranians didn\u2019t negotiate with Mr. Trump.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-3\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cThe Iranians are going to be surprised when they find out they aren\u2019t dealing with Barack Obama or John Kerry,\u201d said Senator Jim Risch, Republican of Idaho and the chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, referring to the secretary of state who oversaw the American negotiations. \u201cThis is a whole different ballgame.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The negotiations begin on Saturday, with Steve Witkoff, the president\u2019s friend and fellow New York real estate developer, reportedly leading the American team. Mr. Witkoff, who is also handling negotiations over Gaza and Ukraine, has no known background in the complex technology of nuclear fuel enrichment, or the many steps to nuclear bomb making.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The first question he will face is the scope of the negotiation. The Obama-era deal dealt only with the nuclear program. It didn\u2019t touch Iran\u2019s missile program \u2014 that was under separate strictures by the United Nations, which Tehran ignored \u2014 or its support of terrorism.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Michael Waltz, the national security adviser, has said a new agreement with the Trump administration must deal with everything, and that Iran\u2019s vast nuclear facilities must be completely dismantled \u2014 not just left in place, running at dead slow, as they were in the 2015 deal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cIran has to give up its program in a way that the entire world can see,\u201d he said on CBS\u2019s \u201cFace the Nation\u201d in March. He talked about \u201cfull dismantlement,\u201d a situation that would leave Iran largely defenseless: no missiles, no proxy forces, no pathway to a bomb.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-4\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. Trump said on Monday that the talks with Iran would be \u201cdirect,\u2019\u2019 meaning U.S. negotiators would interact with their Iranian counterparts. So far the Iranians have a different story: Abbas Araghchi, Iran\u2019s foreign minister, published an essay in The Washington Post on Tuesday saying the country was \u201cready for indirect negotiations with the United States.\u201d Mr. Araghchi said the United States must first pledge to take a military option against Iran off the table.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cClearly, they\u2019re saying they want to talk,\u201d said Jim Walsh, a senior research associate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology\u2019s Security Studies Program. \u201cBut there\u2019s negotiation, and then there\u2019s capitulation. Is this a list of demands or we get attacked? That\u2019s not going to work.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The negotiating environment carries higher stakes than during the Obama administration. Iran\u2019s nuclear program has advanced since Mr. Trump discarded the previous deal; today it is producing uranium enriched to 60 percent purity, just below bomb-grade. American intelligence agencies have concluded that <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/02\/03\/us\/politics\/iran-nuclear-weapon.html\" title=\"\">Iran is exploring a faster, if cruder, approach<\/a> to developing an atomic weapon that would take months, instead of a year or two, if its leadership decides to race for a bomb.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">But in other ways, Iran is in a weaker negotiating position.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Israel destroyed almost all of Iran\u2019s air defenses protecting its nuclear facilities in October. And Iran\u2019s regional proxies, Hezbollah and Hamas, are significantly weakened and in no condition to threaten Israel with retaliation should the Iranian facilities come under attack.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-5\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">There are other factors at play.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Iran could leverage its relationship with Russia at a time when the United States is trying to negotiate an end to the invasion of Ukraine. The Justice Department has accused Iran\u2019s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps of <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/11\/08\/nyregion\/iran-trump-assassination-plot.html\" title=\"\">seeking to assassinate Mr. Trump<\/a> last year, the shadow of which hangs over the negotiations. And would Israel and congressional Republicans accept whatever nuclear deal is reached, even if it ends up being weaker than what the Obama team negotiated?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-6\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Dennis Jett, a professor of international affairs at Pennsylvania State University who wrote a book about the Iran nuclear deal, said Mr. Trump was unlikely to take the threat of military strikes off the table, making the chance of a successful negotiation remote.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cI think these talks are going to be short-lived and unproductive,\u201d he said, adding that Mr. Witkoff is \u201ca New York real estate guy, and he seems to think that diplomacy is just doing a deal. You negotiate back and forth and sign the deal. It\u2019s not that simple.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Karim Sadjadpour, an Iranian American policy analyst at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, said there was a risk the Trump negotiating team was out of its element.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cYou\u2019re not negotiating a final price tag or a grand bargain, but highly technical issues like uranium enrichment levels, centrifuge specifications and inspection regimes,\u201d he said. \u201cThere is an ocean of space between saying that Iran can\u2019t have a nuclear weapon and that Iran\u2019s nuclear program must be \u2018dismantled\u2019 like Libya\u2019s. There is a risk that the U.S. side, which currently lacks clear expertise and a defined endgame, will be out-negotiated by an Iranian side that has both.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-7\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Seyed Hossein Mousavian, a Middle East security and nuclear policy specialist at Princeton University, said he believed there was a chance of success for the negotiations, where both sides leave the table with an outcome they can sell to the people of their countries, including one in which Iran submits to regular inspections.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cSteve Witkoff, to my understanding, he really wants to make a deal. He really doesn\u2019t want war, and he has the same mind-set as President Trump,\u201d Mr. Mousavian said. \u201cTherefore, I see the chance. But the reality is that Iran and the U.S. have 45 years of hostilities to resolve and to agree is very complicated.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/04\/09\/us\/politics\/trump-iran-nuclear-deal.html\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2016, running for president and pressed for details on how he would handle some of the 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