[🇮🇷] Iran & the USA Relationship

[Lulldapull]

Trump sahbs offer to Iran is very simple:

1. Stop fukking around with us

2. Stop fukking around with Israel.

3. Let us dismantle your nukes right now, and your missile and drone programs or else!..we'll sell yous weapons, like we do to all the other chutiya countries.

4. Hand over you economy to us and let us run it for you like all these other chutiya colored people.

5. You are not special........just fukking drop it. Start listening to us like all these other chummpu people do.

6. We'll turn you into the next Sawdi Judea.......just listen to us.

7. Get the hell away from Russia and China........right now!

 

[Saif]

Iran seeks fair deal in US nuclear talks

Iran is seeking a ‘real and fair’ agreement with the United States on its nuclear programme, a senior aide to supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said Friday, setting the stage for a diplomatic showdown this weekend in Oman.

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Iran seeks fair deal in US nuclear talks
Agence France-Presse . Tehran, Iran 11 April, 2025, 22:41

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Iran is seeking a ‘real and fair’ agreement with the United States on its nuclear programme, a senior aide to supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said Friday, setting the stage for a diplomatic showdown this weekend in Oman.

Longtime adversaries Iran and the United States are set to hold talks on Saturday aimed at reaching a deal on Tehran’s nuclear programme.

US president Donald Trump last month sent a letter to Khamenei urging negotiations, warning of possible military action if Iran refuses.

‘Far from putting up a show and merely talking in front of the cameras, Tehran is seeking a real and fair agreement, important and implementable proposals are ready,’ Khamenei adviser Ali Shamkhani said in a post on X.

He confirmed that Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi was heading to Oman ‘with full authority for indirect negotiations with America’, adding that if Washington showed goodwill, the path forward would be ‘smooth’.

In the lead-up to the talks, Trump reiterated his warning that military action was ‘absolutely’ possible if talks failed.

Iran responded by saying it could expel UN nuclear inspectors, prompting another US warning that such action would be an ‘escalation’.

Iran has consistently denied seeking to acquire nuclear weapons.

On Friday, foreign ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baqaei said Iran was ‘giving diplomacy a genuine chance in good faith and full vigilance.’

‘America should appreciate this decision, which was made despite their hostile rhetoric,’ he said.

The talks were first announced by Trump during Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s visit to Washington.

While he said they would be high-level and ‘direct’, Iran has insisted they would be ‘indirect’.

Araghchi and US special envoy Steve Witkoff are due to lead the talks in Oman, which has played a mediating role on the Iran nuclear file.

Witkoff visited Russia on Friday for talks on Ukraine with Russian President Vladimir Putin, an ally of Iran.

Expert-level consultations between Russia, China and Iran on nuclear issues took place in Moscow on Tuesday, according to the Russian foreign ministry.

Iran has in recent months also been talking with the three European signatories of the 2015 nuclear deal, namely France, Germany and Britain.

On Friday, Germany urged the two sides to reach a ‘diplomatic solution’, adding that it is a ‘positive development that there is a channel for dialogue between Iran and the United States’.

Ahead of the talks, the United States imposed additional sanctions on the Islamic republic targeting its oil network and nuclear programme.

Iran’s nuclear agency chief Mohammad Eslami downplayed their impact, saying: ‘They applied maximum pressure with various sanctions, but they were unable to prevent the country from progressing.’

‘They still think that they can stop this nation and country with threats and intimidation, psychological operations, or stupid actions,’ he added.

Iran has come into the spotlight since Trump returned to office, and its regional allies have in recent months suffered major setbacks.

Among them are Hamas in Gaza and Hezbollah in Lebanon, hit by staggering losses in conflicts with Israel sparked by the October 7, 2023 attack.

Since the start of the Gaza war, Iran and Israel have engaged in direct attacks for the first time in history.

Warning of military action against Iran should the talks fail, Trump said US ally Israel would ‘obviously be very much involved in that, be the leader of that’.

Khamenei’s adviser Shamkhani later warned such threats could prompt the expulsion of UN nuclear watchdog inspectors.

‘Transfer of enriched materials to secure locations may also be considered,’ he added, referring to the country’s uranium enrichment.

While the West wants to include Iran’s ballistic missile programme and its regional influence in negotiations, Tehran has maintained it will only talk about its nuclear programme.

‘If the American side does not raise irrelevant issues and demands and puts aside threats and intimidation, there is a good possibility of reaching an agreement,’ Iran’s deputy foreign minister Majid Takht-Ravanchi said.

Hardline media in Iran voiced scepticism on the talks.

The Kayhan newspaper ran editorials warning the new sanctions showed the United States was ‘an enemy of Iran and its people’ and dismissed negotiations to lift sanctions as a ‘failed strategy.’

Reformist media outlets struck a more optimistic tone, emphasising the potential economic and investment opportunities talks could create.

During his first term, Trump withdrew from the 2015 nuclear deal between Iran and world powers and reimposed sweeping economic sanctions.

Tehran adhered to the deal for a year but later began rolling back its own commitments.​

 

[Saif]

Iran, US end high-level talks in Oman, agree to resume 'next week', Tehran says

Iran and the US held talks in Oman on Saturday and agreed to reconvene next week, the Iranian side said, a dialogue meant to address Tehran's escalating nuclear programme with President Donald Trump threatening military action if there is no deal. Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi posted on h

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Iran, US end high-level talks in Oman, agree to resume 'next week', Tehran says
REUTERS
Published :
Apr 12, 2025 21:31
Updated :
Apr 12, 2025 21:31

Iran and the US held talks in Oman on Saturday and agreed to reconvene next week, the Iranian side said, a dialogue meant to address Tehran's escalating nuclear programme with President Donald Trump threatening military action if there is no deal.

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi posted on his Telegram channel that his delegation had a brief encounter with its US counterpart, headed by Trump's Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff, after they exited the indirect talks mediated by Oman.

"After the end of more than 2-1/2 hours of indirect talks, the heads of the Iranian and American delegations spoke for a few minutes in the presence of the Omani foreign minister as they left the talks," Araqchi said.

He said the talks - a first between Iran and a Trump administration, including his first term in 2017-21 - took place in a "productive and positive atmosphere".

"Both sides have agreed to continue the talks next week," Araqchi wrote, without elaborating about the venue and date.

There was no immediate US comment on the talks.

Underlining the profound rift between the US and Iran, Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmail Baghaei earlier said on X that each delegation had its separate room and would exchange messages via Oman's foreign minister.

"The current focus of the talks will be de-escalating regional tensions, prisoner exchanges and limited agreements to ease sanctions (against Iran) in exchange for controlling Iran's nuclear programme," an Omani source told Reuters. Baghaei denied this account but did not specify what was false.

Oman has long been an intermediary between Western powers and Iran, having brokered the release of several foreign citizens and dual nationals held by the Islamic Republic.

Tehran approached the talks warily, sceptical they could yield a deal and suspicious of Trump, who has repeatedly threatened to bomb Iran if it does not halt its accelerating uranium enrichment programme - regarded by the West as a possible pathway to nuclear weapons.

While each side has talked up the chances of some progress, they remain far apart on a dispute that has rumbled on for more than two decades. Iran has long denied seeking nuclear weapons capability, but Western countries and Israel believe it is covertly trying to develop the means to build an atomic bomb.

Saturday's exchanges appeared indirect, as Iran had wanted, rather than face-to-face, as Trump had demanded.

"This is a beginning. So it is normal at this stage for the two sides to present to each other their fundamental positions through the Omani intermediary," Baghaei said.

Signs of progress could help cool tensions in a region aflame since 2023 with wars in Gaza and Lebanon, missile fire between Iran and Israel, Houthi attacks on Red Sea shipping and the overthrow of the government in Syria.

HIGH STAKES

However, failure would aggravate fears of a wider conflagration across a region that exports much of the world's oil. Tehran has cautioned neighbouring countries that have US bases that they would face "severe consequences" if they were involved in any US military attack on Iran.

"There is a chance for initial understanding on further negotiations if the other party (US) enters the talks with an equal stance," Araqchi told Iranian TV.

Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who has the final say on key state matters, has given Araqchi "full authority" for the talks, an Iranian official told Reuters.

Iran has ruled out negotiating its defence capabilities such as its ballistic missile programme.

Western nations say Iran's enrichment of uranium, a nuclear fuel source, has gone far beyond the requirements of a civilian energy programme and has produced stocks at a level of fissile purity close to those required in warheads.

Trump, who has restored a "maximum pressure" campaign on Tehran since February, ditched a 2015 nuclear pact between Iran and six world powers in 2018 during his first term and reimposed crippling sanctions on the Islamic Republic.

Since then, Iran's nuclear programme has leaped forward, including by enriching uranium to 60% fissile purity, a technical step from the levels needed for a bomb.

Israel, Washington's closest Middle East ally, regards Iran's nuclear programme as an existential threat and has long threatened to attack Iran if diplomacy fails to curb its nuclear ambitions.

Tehran's influence throughout the Middle East has been severely weakened over the past 18 months, with its regional allies - known as the "Axis of Resistance" - either dismantled or badly damaged since the start of the Hamas-Israel war in Gaza and the fall of Bashar al-Assad in Syria in December.​

 

[Saif]

US in hurry for nuclear deal: Iran

The United States wants a nuclear agreement ‘as soon as possible’, Iran said after rare talks on Saturday, as US president Donald Trump threatens military action if they fail to reach a deal.

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US in hurry for nuclear deal: Iran
Agence France-Presse . Muscat, Oman 13 April, 2025, 01:20

The United States wants a nuclear agreement ‘as soon as possible’, Iran said after rare talks on Saturday, as US president Donald Trump threatens military action if they fail to reach a deal.

Foreign minister Abbas Araghchi, who briefly spoke face-to-face with Trump’s special envoy Steve Witkoff during the indirect meeting in Oman, said the talks would resume next Saturday.

‘The American side also said that a positive agreement was one that can be reached as soon as possible but that will not be easy and will require a willingness on both sides,’ Araghchi told Iranian state television.

‘At today’s meeting, I think we came very close to a basis for negotiation... Neither we nor the other party want fruitless negotiations, discussions for discussions’ sake, time wasting or talks that drag on for ever,’ he added.

Oman’s foreign minister acted as intermediary in the talks in Muscat, Iran said. The Americans had called for the meetings to be face-to-face.

However, the negotiators also spoke directly for ‘a few minutes’, Iran’s foreign ministry said. It said the talks were held ‘in a constructive and mutually respectful atmosphere’.

The long-term adversaries, who have not had diplomatic relations for more than 40 years, are seeking a new nuclear deal after Trump pulled out of an earlier agreement during his first term in 2018.

Araghchi, a seasoned diplomat and key architect of the 2015 accord, and Witkoff, a real estate magnate, led the delegations in the highest-level Iran-US nuclear talks since the previous accord’s collapse.

The two parties were in ‘separate halls’ and were ‘conveying their views and positions to each other through the Omani foreign minister’, Iran’s foreign ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baqaei posted on X.

The process took place in a ‘friendly atmosphere’, Omani foreign minister Badr Albusaidi said.

Iran, weakened by Israel’s pummelling of its allies Hezbollah in Lebanon and Hamas in Gaza, is seeking relief from wide-ranging sanctions hobbling its economy.

Tehran has agreed to the meetings despite baulking at Trump’s ‘maximum pressure’ campaign of ramping up sanctions and repeated military threats.

Meanwhile the US, hand-in-glove with Iran’s arch-enemy Israel, wants to stop Tehran from ever getting close to developing a nuclear bomb.

There were no visible signs of the high-level meeting at a luxury hotel in Muscat, the same venue where the 2015 agreement was struck when Barack Obama was US president.

Witkoff told The Wall Street Journal earlier that the US position starts with demanding that Iran completely dismantle its nuclear programme—a view held by hardliners around Trump that few expect Iran to accept.

‘That doesn’t mean, by the way, that at the margin we’re not going to find other ways to find compromise between the two countries,’ Witkoff told the newspaper.

‘Where our red line will be, there can’t be weaponisation of your nuclear capability,’ he added.

The talks were revealed in a surprise announcement by Trump during a White House appearance with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday.

Hours before they began, Trump told reporters aboard Air Force One: ‘I want Iran to be a wonderful, great, happy country. But they can’t have a nuclear weapon.’

Supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s adviser Ali Shamkhani said Iran was ‘seeking a real and fair agreement’.

Saturday’s meetings followed repeated threats of military action by both the US and Israel.

‘If it requires military, we’re going to have military,’ Trump said on Wednesday when asked what would happen if the talks fail.​

 

[Lulldapull]

CIA satellites have discovered a secret underground missile city in the Sudan gents built by the IRGC a decade ago........

 

[Lulldapull]

Irans getting back into the Sudan guys. Get closer to the Zionists and fukking choke the red sea completely for western and Israeli shipping:

 

[Bilal9]

CIA satellites have discovered a secret underground missile city in the Sudan gents built by the IRGC a decade ago........

What took these people a decade to find out about this installation? Wow.

 

[Lulldapull]

What took these people a decade to find out about this installation? Wow.

They just weren't looking in the right places. They thought Irans long left Sudan like a decade ago. Now with Iranian Mohajir 10 drones operating over Sudan and Ethiopia and winning, defeating UAE backed rebels all over the place, the Zionists started scanning east Africa via CIA satellites.