{"id":3375,"date":"2025-04-05T13:50:07","date_gmt":"2025-04-05T08:50:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pakjazbo.com\/?p=3375"},"modified":"2025-04-05T13:51:06","modified_gmt":"2025-04-05T08:51:06","slug":"donald-trump-urges-iran-to-hold-direct-talks-on-nukes-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakjazbo.com\/?p=3375","title":{"rendered":"Donald Trump urges Iran to hold &#8216;direct talks&#8217; on nukes deal"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>&#8220;I think they want to meet,&#8221; says US president about Iran&#8217;s stance.<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Trump thinks direct talks are better but Iran pushes for indirect talks.\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>He gave Iranians two-month deadline to reach new nuclear deal.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">US President Donald Trump said Thursday he wanted &#8220;direct talks&#8221; with Tehran on a nuclear deal, after he threatened to bomb Iran if it develops nuclear weapons.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Trump has given Iran&#8217;s leaders a two-month deadline to reach an agreement on the country&#8217;s nuclear program, which has strained relations with Western nations for decades.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Western countries, including the United States, have long accused Iran of pursuing a nuclear weapon, which Tehran has denied, insisting its enrichment activities were solely for peaceful purposes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;I think it&#8217;s better if we have direct talks,&#8221; he told reporters onboard the presidential plane Air Force One. &#8220;I think it goes faster, and you understand the other side a lot better than if you go through intermediaries.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Iran&#8217;s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said last week that Tehran would not engage in direct talks with Washington &#8220;until there is a change in the other side&#8217;s approach towards the Islamic republic&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Trump in his first term ripped up a 2015 nuclear deal negotiated by predecessor Barack Obama and reimposed crippling sanctions on Iran.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The deal, sealed between Tehran and world powers, had required Iran to limit its nuclear ambitions in exchange for sanctions relief.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;They wanted to use intermediaries. I don&#8217;t think that&#8217;s necessarily true anymore,&#8221; Trump said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;I think they&#8217;re concerned, I think they feel vulnerable. I don&#8217;t want them to feel that way,&#8221; he added. &#8220;I think they want to meet.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Trump said last month he had written to Iran&#8217;s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei to call for nuclear negotiations and warn of possible military action if Tehran refused.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Trump gave the Iranians a two-month deadline to reach a new nuclear deal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In response, Tehran has agreed only to indirect negotiations. It has ruled out any direct talks while under a US policy of \u201cmaximum pressure\u201d, according to&nbsp;<em>The Conversation<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Khamenei responded by saying that US threats &#8220;will get them nowhere&#8221; and warned of reciprocal measures &#8220;if they do anything malign&#8221; against Iran.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Last week, Trump said &#8220;there will be bombing&#8221; of Iran if it does not drop its efforts to develop nuclear weapons.&nbsp;In recent days, American B-2 bombers and warships have been deployed to the region in a show of force.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US President Donald Trump said Thursday he wanted &#8220;direct talks&#8221; with Tehran on a nuclear deal, after he threatened to bomb Iran if it develops nuclear weapons. Trump has given Iran&#8217;s leaders a two-month deadline to reach an agreement on the country&#8217;s nuclear program, which has strained relations with Western nations for decades. 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