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Trump k ullay nay zyada badmashi ager kari, then Iran will squeeze his toady very quickly and then they will scream in paind of de gaand

Dozens of lower caste countries Iran can shut down with some drama in da Hormuz and then they will be screaming at trump ka ulla k tu duntt care about us dalits…..ye kya bukvaas hae if we dunnt getting de oil and gas what we do now suck your dick cuz even dat not working anymore…..😝👍
 
O yaar, they coming legit and docking here at deep water, or barges collecting from their big tankers with huge drafts ka crude and taking to refinery. India and China ne band ni kia apna oil trade with Iran.

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Check de desperationd bhai….

Irans put ijhrra-heeld under its jackboot.

Constant attacks from its proxies without any relief.

Ijjhrra-heeld on US life support bhai.

US support hatta aur Iran ne iss key gaandd maari bhai, sub k saamnay…😝

Aaaaaaahahahahahaaaaa

 
Sharma Ji said:
O yaar, they coming legit and docking here at deep water, or barges collecting from their big tankers with huge drafts ka crude and taking to refinery. India and China ne band ni kia apna oil trade with Iran.

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Yes…..Russia China India secretly buy Irani oil and then sell it.

Trump ka ulla kya karay ga ab?

He’s so impotent.
 
Lulldapull said:
Yes…..Russia China India secretly buy Irani oil and then sell it.

Trump ka ulla kya karay ga ab?

He’s so impotent.
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ya, crude khreed ke, processing kar ke, apni chepi laga ke becho dunia bhar me.. khulli chhoot hai :D

US ke unscrupulous binnusmen bhi bana rahe hongey accha khasa paisa from all this chaos..

bhai I'm again and again reminded of that Nicholas Cage ki Ukraiind drug dealer movie, Lord of War ..

did Hollywood know something ? .. this one's from 2005



acchi movie hai, dramatized biopic based on a real guy something
 
Sharma Ji said:
fir ghoom fir ke wohi baat

US support will forever be there, warna (((bankers))) will do bad thing

US is held hostage by (((them)))

abhi dono oil churaney ke chakkar m hain Iraandion ka :LOL:
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Irans not goin agree to play second fiddle in the ME to US or Israel.

There’s no fukking way that will be an acceptable position. Not for Iran.

It maybe a position for Sawdi Judea or turkey but not for Iran.
 
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Khamenei says US threats ‘will get them nowhere’

Iran’s supreme leader said on Friday that US threats against his country ‘will get them nowhere’, after president Donald Trump warned of possible military action against the Islamic republic.
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Khamenei says US threats ‘will get them nowhere’
Agence France-Presse . Tehran 21 March, 2025, 21:40

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Ayatollah Ali Khamenei

Iran’s supreme leader said on Friday that US threats against his country ‘will get them nowhere’, after president Donald Trump warned of possible military action against the Islamic republic.

‘The Americans should know threats will get them nowhere when confronting Iran,’ Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said in his live annual televised speech marking Nowruz, the Persian New Year.

He said Americans ‘and others should know that if they do anything malign to the Iranian nation, they will get a hard slap’.

On March 7, Trump said he had written to Khamenei, urging negotiations with Tehran over its nuclear programme and warning of potential military action if it refuses.

On Thursday, foreign minister Abbas Araghchi said the letter was ‘more of a threat’, but also said it appeared to offer opportunities.

Araghchi added that Tehran is weighing its response which will be issued in the coming days.

On Wednesday, US news website Axios, citing a US official and other sources, reported that Trump’s letter set a ‘two-month deadline for reaching a new nuclear deal’.

It did not specify a start or end date of the two-month period.

Khamenei has previously dismissed Trump’s overtures for talks, accusing the US president of attempting to deceive global public opinion by portraying the United States as willing to negotiate and Iran as unwilling to engage.

Trump, who began his second term in January, has reinstated his policy of ‘maximum pressure’ against Tehran.

During his first term, he unilaterally withdrew the United States in 2018 from the landmark nuclear deal between Iran and world powers and reimposed sweeping economic sanctions on Tehran.

Iran initially adhered to the deal for a year after Trump’s withdrawal but then started scaling back its own commitments, increasing uranium enrichment levels up to 60 per cent.

The current level far exceeds the 3.67 per cent limit set under the deal, and is much closer to the 90 per cent threshold required for weapons-grade material.

Efforts to revive the nuclear deal have so far failed.

Tehran accuses Trump of contradictory approaches, and has repeatedly ruled out direct talks with Washington under pressure.

Iran ‘definitely will not negotiate directly while facing pressure, threats, and increased sanctions,’ Araghchi said on Thursday.​
 
US can't touch Iran or else Iran will fukk da US up beyond recovery.

Only way for the US to destroy Iran is to use nukes........

And if it does that, then you can kiss da current global world order goodbye!

Sawdi Judea, Al-Turkiya or even Pakistan or Egypt like harmless countries are fair game.......not much consequences, but if Iran gets nuked, then it will change the whulldd.
 
Lulldapull said:
US can't touch Iran or else Iran will fukk da US up beyond recovery.

Only way for the US to destroy Iran is to use nukes........

And if it does that, then you can kiss da current global world order goodbye!

Sawdi Judea, Al-Turkiya or even Pakistan or Egypt like harmless countries are fair game.......not much consequences, but if Iran gets nuked, then it will change the whulldd.
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US is in no position to nuke Iran. We need Iran to fu*k Saudis. Saudis are the greatest a*s lickers of the West. Hope you agree with me.
 
Lulldapull said:
US can't touch Iran or else Iran will fukk da US up beyond recovery.

Only way for the US to destroy Iran is to use nukes........

And if it does that, then you can kiss da current global world order goodbye!

Sawdi Judea, Al-Turkiya or even Pakistan or Egypt like harmless countries are fair game.......not much consequences, but if Iran gets nuked, then it will change the whulldd.
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Strike on Saudia will hurt the global economy, mujhe India, aapko, Japan and @Baali Jutt in Amrika, sabko chot lagni ae paltrol pump ja k :P
 
Sharma Ji said:
Strike on Saudia will hurt the global economy, mujhe India, aapko, Japan and @Baali Jutt in Amrika, sabko chot lagni ae paltrol pump ja k :P
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Iran will target US bases in the GCC and totally destroy them along with all oil fields and refineries/ pumping stations and crude loading terminals.

Just like khurais/abqaiq attack.

Saari dunya key tuttian khushk ho jaen gee in under two minutes.

Iran will destroy them along with global economy in two minutes.

Trump ka ulla understands this all too well.
 
Lulldapull said:
Iran will target US bases in the GCC and totally destroy them along with all oil fields and refineries/ pumping stations and crude loading terminals.

Just like khurais/abqaiq attack.

Saari dunya key tuttian khushk ho jaen gee in under two minutes.

Iran will destroy them along with global economy in two minutes.

Trump ka ulla understands this all too well.
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witkoff wala interview dekho
 
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Trump warns Iran of consequences if no nuclear deal

Donald Trump said Friday that Iran faces severe consequences if it fails to reach a nuclear deal, after Tehran responded to a letter from the US president calling for talks.
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Trump warns Iran of consequences if no nuclear deal
Agence France-Presse . Washington, United States 29 March, 2025, 22:13

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US president Donald Trump. | File photo

Donald Trump said Friday that Iran faces severe consequences if it fails to reach a nuclear deal, after Tehran responded to a letter from the US president calling for talks.

‘I sent them a letter just recently, and I said: you have to make a decision, one way or the other, and we either have to talk and talk it out or very bad things are going to happen to Iran,’ Trump told reporters in the Oval office.

‘I don’t want that to happen. My big preference—and I don’t say this through strength or weakness—my big preference is, we work it out with Iran. But if we don’t work it out, bad, bad things are going to happen to Iran.’

Trump, who in 2018 pulled the United States out of an agreement to relieve sanctions on Iran in return for curbs on its nuclear program, now says he is open to talks on a deal that could reduce the risk of military escalation.

The US president revealed at the start of March that he had sent a letter to Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

At the same time, Trump has pushed ahead with his ‘maximum pressure’ program of additional sanctions on Tehran and the threat of military action if it refuses to negotiate.

Tehran has refused to negotiate directly with Washington under these circumstances, but has held out the possibility of indirect talks.

On Thursday, Iran’s foreign minister Abbas Araghchi told the official IRNA news agency that he had delivered a letter responding to Trump’s outreach to Oman, which has served as an intermediary in the past in the absence of US-Iran diplomatic relations.​
 
Sharma Ji said:
he getting the gulfies to help, maybe they can get a deal.. who knows.
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Gulfy are colored peepal bhai like indian dalit folk no?

Like that jahil mod from Indonesia on our other forum.

Gulfy and Indonesian/ malayshiunnz/ Indians/ Pakistani ka saara paisa deposited in the western financial system.

You seriously can't be dis chutiya no?

Theys got de pawa to fukk yous up in under two minutes.

Dalit key shaaanndd hindustaandd?

My ghaaadd.......lol
 
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Trump says "there will be bombing" if Iran does not make nuclear deal

U.S. President Donald Trump on Sunday threatened Iran with bombings and secondary tariffs if Tehran did not come to an agreement with Washington over its nuclear program. In a telephone interview with NBC News, Trump said U.S. and Iranian officials were talking but did not elaborate. "If they don
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Trump says "there will be bombing" if Iran does not make nuclear deal
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Published :
Mar 30, 2025 22:01
Updated :
Mar 30, 2025 22:44

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A 3D-printed miniature model of Donald Trump and the U.S. and Iran flags are seen in this illustration taken January 15, 2025. Photo : REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration/Files

U.S. President Donald Trump on Sunday threatened Iran with bombings and secondary tariffs if Tehran did not come to an agreement with Washington over its nuclear program.

In a telephone interview with NBC News, Trump said U.S. and Iranian officials were talking but did not elaborate.

"If they don't make a deal, there will be bombing," Trump said. "But there's a chance that if they don't make a deal, that I will do secondary tariffs on them like I did four years ago."

In his first 2017-21 term, Trump withdrew the U.S. from a 2015 deal between Iran and world powers that placed strict limits on Tehran's disputed nuclear activities in exchange for sanctions relief.

Trump also reimposed sweeping U.S. sanctions. Since then the Islamic Republic has far surpassed the agreed limits in its escalating program of uranium enrichment.

Tehran has so far rebuffed Trump's warning to make a deal or face military consequences.

Iran sent a response through Oman to Trump's letter in which he urged Tehran to reach a new nuclear deal, Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi was cited as saying by the official IRNA news agency on Thursday.

Western powers accuse Iran of having an clandestine agenda to develop nuclear weapons capability by enriching uranium to a high level of fissile purity, above what they say is justifiable for a civilian atomic energy program.

Tehran says its nuclear program is wholly for civilian energy purposes.​
 
@Sharma Ji @Vsdoc @Bilal9 @Saif

It is conphurrmm now k Joe Shearer bhayya is a Bengali Christy X-Tian fella whose phather was in the Dec'71 war and served either during the conflict or as a civil servhaantt just after in the indian army or civil service.

Bilkul aik dumm emotional ho gya when I started talkin on dat conflict.

Did you gents notice da emotional breakdown he had when I said k bhai 40k Pakistani ghareeb soldiers runnin helter skelter and largely confined to their barracks for a good year in the face of 80 million Bengali angry citizens.

How da fuqq can 40k hapless ghareeb rape and kill 3 million Bangladeshi in about a year? We were confined to our barracks fending off attacks on our military barracks basically.

I mean this is next level propaganda on his part.

He is bengali Christy X-Tian........conphurrmm ho gya bhai......

And I gotta strong hunch k Neil gaey is a sindhi hindu.
 
Lulldapull said:
@Sharma Ji @Vsdoc @Bilal9 @Saif

It is conphurrmm now k Joe Shearer bhayya is a Bengali Christy X-Tian fella whose phather was in the Dec'71 war and served either during the conflict or as a civil servhaantt just after in the indian army or civil service.

Bilkul aik dumm emotional ho gya when I started talkin on dat conflict.

Did you gents notice da emotional breakdown he had when I said k bhai 40k Pakistani ghareeb soldiers runnin helter skelter and largely confined to their barracks for a good year in the face of 80 million Bengali angry citizens.

How da fuqq can 40k hapless ghareeb rape and kill 3 million Bangladeshi in about a year? We were confined to our barracks fending off attacks on our military barracks basically.

I mean this is next level propaganda on his part.

He is bengali Christy X-Tian........conphurrmm ho gya bhai......

And I gotta strong hunch k Neil gaey is a sindhi hindu.
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Nobody believes Sheikh Mujib's claims of 3 millions deaths. Mujib's claims are exaggerated which even the U.N. has refused to recognize. Peace!
 
Lulldapull said:
@Sharma Ji @Vsdoc @Bilal9 @Saif

It is conphurrmm now k Joe Shearer bhayya is a Bengali Christy X-Tian fella whose phather was in the Dec'71 war and served either during the conflict or as a civil servhaantt just after in the indian army or civil service.

Bilkul aik dumm emotional ho gya when I started talkin on dat conflict.

Did you gents notice da emotional breakdown he had when I said k bhai 40k Pakistani ghareeb soldiers runnin helter skelter and largely confined to their barracks for a good year in the face of 80 million Bengali angry citizens.

How da fuqq can 40k hapless ghareeb rape and kill 3 million Bangladeshi in about a year? We were confined to our barracks fending off attacks on our military barracks basically.

I mean this is next level propaganda on his part.

He is bengali Christy X-Tian........conphurrmm ho gya bhai......

And I gotta strong hunch k Neil gaey is a sindhi hindu.
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Joe ka no idea, was/is a commie and even ran for some sort of office. Nilgai is Tamild.

@Bilal9 probably knows better.
 
Sharma Ji said:
vo 24/7 pareshaan hi rehta hai

he just itching to permaban me off there.
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Strange cat no?

Oh bhai something happened 55 years ago and everybodys forgotten bout it.......and moved on........but here yous are playing like da jew no?

lol

Only jews do that cuz they fear da next holocaust. And my suggestion to them is always k bhai go live among coloreds like yourselves no?

Zaroori hae k aap hillbillon key gaand main ghunso?.....lol.......makes no sense.

P.S.......seedhi seedhi baat hae bhai......the euro-peeonds don't want em amongst dem.

No!
 
Lulldapull said:
Strange cat no?

Oh bhai something happened 55 years ago and everybodys forgotten bout it.......and moved on........but here yous are playing like da jew no?

lol

Only jews do that cuz they fear da next holocaust. And my suggestion to them is always k bhai go live among coloreds like yourselves no?

Zaroori hae k aap hillbillon key gaand main ghunso?.....lol.......makes no sense.

P.S.......seedhi seedhi baat hae bhai......the euro-peeonds don't want em amongst dem.

No!
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His family moved from east Pak, what is now BD. Ancestral village Barishaal, hence Doc's nickname for him, the Barishaal Bomber :LOL:
 
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Iran will deliver 'strong blow' against US if it attacks, Khamenei says

Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Monday the US would receive a strong blow if it acts on President Donald Trump’s threat to bomb unless Tehran reaches a new nuclear deal with Washington. Trump reiterated his threat on Sunday that Iran would be bombed if it does not
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Iran will deliver 'strong blow' against US if it attacks, Khamenei says
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Mar 31, 2025 19:14
Updated :
Mar 31, 2025 19:14

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Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei speaks after Eid al-Fitr prayers to mark the end of the holy month of Ramadan, in Tehran, Iran, Mar 31, 2025. Photo : Reuters

Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Monday the US would receive a strong blow if it acts on President Donald Trump’s threat to bomb unless Tehran reaches a new nuclear deal with Washington.

Trump reiterated his threat on Sunday that Iran would be bombed if it does not accept his offer for talks outlined in a letter sent to Iran’s leadership in early March, giving Tehran a two-month window to make a decision.

Iran handed a warning on Monday about Trump’s threats to Switzerland’s embassy, which represents US interests and acts as an intermediary between Washington and Tehran, state media said. In its warning, Tehran expressed determination to respond “decisively and immediately” to any threat.

“The enmity from the US and Israel has always been there. They threaten to attack us, which we don’t think is very probable, but if they commit any mischief they will surely receive a strong reciprocal blow,” Khamenei said.

“And if they are thinking of causing sedition inside the country as in past years, the Iranian people themselves will deal with them,” he added.

Iranian authorities blame the West for recent unrest including 2022-2023 protests over the death in custody of Mahsa Amini, a young woman detained for allegedly flouting hijab rules, and nationwide protests in 2019 over fuel price rises.

Last week, Iran responded to the US letter, with President Masoud Pezeshkian explaining on Sunday that Tehran would not enter direct negotiations with Washington but was willing to continue talks indirectly in line with an injunction from Khamenei.

“An open threat of ‘bombing’ by a head of state against Iran is a shocking affront to the very essence of international peace and security,” Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Esmaeil Baghaei tweeted on Monday.

“Violence breeds violence, peace begets peace. The US can choose the course and concede to consequences.”

Revolutionary Guards Aerospace Commander Amirali Hajizadeh threatened U.S. forces in the Middle East, saying in remarks to media that “Americans have at least 10 bases in the region with 50,000 troops. They are in a glass house and should not throw stones.”

In his first 2017-21 term, Trump withdrew the US from a 2015 deal between Iran and world powers that placed strict limits on Tehran’s disputed nuclear activities in exchange for sanctions relief. Trump also reimposed sweeping US sanctions.

Since then, Iran has far surpassed that deal’s limits on uranium enrichment.

Western powers accuse Iran of having a clandestine agenda to develop nuclear weapons capability by enriching uranium to a high level of fissile purity, above what they say is justifiable for a civilian atomic energy programme. Tehran says its nuclear programme is wholly for civilian energy purposes.​
 
Sharma Ji said:
Joe ka no idea, was/is a commie and even ran for some sort of office. Nilgai is Tamild.

@Bilal9 probably knows better.
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I don't think he is Christian, he is Hindu Brahmin person - highly educated. I respect him a lot.

All highly educated Bengali folks are of a socialist bent, as are educated Tam-Brahms, as are educated EU citizens. Education brings conscience, to level the playing field, and to give the have-nots in society a fair break in life. I feel the same way.

In any case, why does it matter?
 
Sharma Ji said:
His family moved from east Pak, what is now BD. Ancestral village Barishaal, hence Doc's nickname for him, the Barishaal Bomber :LOL:
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If he moved to another country, does it make him a non-Bengali? He will always remain an honored Bengali older brother to me. BTW the literacy rate in Barisaal is off the charts. The highest educated people in Bangladesh. Bangladeshis respect that fact - a lot.
 
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Iran rejects Trump call for direct nuclear talks

Iran’s top diplomat has dismissed direct negotiations with the United States as pointless, his office said Sunday, after US president Donald Trump said he preferred face-to-face talks over its nuclear programme...
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Iran rejects Trump call for direct nuclear talks
Agence France-Presse . Tehran 06 April, 2025, 22:33

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Iranian foreign minister Abbas Araghchi. | AFP photo

Iran’s top diplomat has dismissed direct negotiations with the United States as pointless, his office said Sunday, after US president Donald Trump said he preferred face-to-face talks over its nuclear programme.

Trump sent a letter to Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei last month calling for negotiations but warning of military action if diplomacy failed.

On Thursday, the US president said he favoured ‘direct talks’, arguing they were ‘faster’ and offered a better understanding than going through intermediaries.

But Iranian foreign minister Abbas Araghchi said direct talks made no sense with a country ‘that constantly threatens to resort to force in violation of the UN Charter and that expresses contradictory positions from its various officials’.

‘We remain committed to diplomacy and are ready to try the path of indirect negotiations,’ he was quoted as saying in a statement issued by his ministry.

‘Iran keeps itself prepared for all possible or probable events, and just as it is serious in diplomacy and negotiations, it will also be decisive and serious in defending its national interests and sovereignty.’

On Saturday, Iranian president Masoud Pezeshkian said his country was willing to engage in dialogue with the United States on an ‘equal footing’.

He also questioned Washington’s sincerity in calling for negotiations, saying ‘if you want negotiations, then what is the point of threatening?’

Iran and the United States have had no diplomatic relations since shortly after the 1979 Islamic Revolution with some regional countries like Oman playing a mediating role between the two sides.

Trump’s letter was delivered to Iran via the United Arab Emirates, and Tehran responded at the end of March via the Sultanate of Oman.

On Sunday, the chief of staff of the Iranian armed forces, General Mohammad Bagheri, said Iran’s response stressed that ‘we seek peace in the region’.

‘We are not the ones who start wars, but we will respond to any threat with all our might,’ he said of the content of Iran’s response.

Western countries, led by the United States, have for decades accused Tehran of seeking to acquire nuclear weapons.

Iran rejects the allegation and maintains that its nuclear activities exist solely for civilian purposes.

In 2015, Iran reached a landmark deal with the permanent members of the UN Security Council, namely the United States, France, China, Russia, and the United Kingdom, as well as Germany, to limit its nuclear activities.

The 2015 agreement — known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action — gave Iran sanctions relief in exchange for curbs on its nuclear programme to guarantee that Tehran could not develop a nuclear weapon.

In 2018, during Trump’s first term in office, the United States withdrew from the agreement and reinstated biting sanctions on Iran.

A year later, Iran began rolling back on its commitments under the agreement and accelerated its nuclear programme.

On Monday, Ali Larijani, a close adviser to Khamenei, warned that while Iran was not seeking nuclear weapons, it would ‘have no choice but to do so’ in the event of an attack against it.​
 

Trump announces direct nuclear talks with Iran

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Donald Trump answers a reporters question during a meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin in the Oval Office of the White House on April 7, 2025 in Washington, DC. Photo: AFP

President Donald Trump said the United States was starting direct, high-level talks with Iran over its nuclear program on Saturday, in a shock announcement during a White House meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

Speaking Monday in the Oval Office, Trump said he was hopeful of reaching a deal with Tehran, but warned that the Islamic republic would be in "great danger" if the talks failed.

Hours later Tehran confirmed discussions were set for Saturday in Oman, but stressed they were "indirect" talks.

"Iran and the United States will meet in Oman on Saturday for indirect high-level talks," Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said on social media platform X.

"It is as much an opportunity as it is a test," he added. "The ball is in America's court."

Netanyahu meanwhile said the United States and Israel were working on another deal to free hostages from war-torn Gaza, where a ceasefire between Israel and Iran's ally Hamas has collapsed.

"We're dealing with the Iranians, we have a very big meeting on Saturday and we're dealing with them directly," Trump told reporters after a meeting that was meant to focus on Israel's bid to avoid US tariffs.

Trump did not say where the talks would take place, but insisted they would not involve surrogates and would be at "almost the highest level."

Trump's stunning announcement came a day after Iran dismissed direct negotiations on a new deal to curb the country's nuclear program, calling the idea pointless.

The US president pulled out of the last deal in 2018, during his first presidency, and there has been widespread speculation that Israel, possibly with US help, might attack Iranian facilities if no new agreement is reached.

Trump issued a stern warning to Tehran, however.

"I think if the talks aren't successful with Iran, I think Iran's going to be in great danger, and I hate to say it, great danger, because they can't have a nuclear weapon," he said.

Meanwhile officials said that Russia, China and Iran were due to hold consultations on the Iranian nuclear issue on Tuesday in Moscow.

Trump's revelation came as Netanyahu became the first foreign leader to personally plead for a reprieve from stinging US tariffs that have shaken the world.

The Israeli premier pledged to eliminate the trade deficit between the two countries and also knock down trade "barriers."

His country moved to lift its last remaining tariffs on US imports ahead of the meeting.

- Gaza talks -

Netanyahu and Trump also discussed Gaza, where a short-lived, US-brokered truce between Israel and Hamas has collapsed.

Netanyahu said new negotiations were in the works aimed at freeing more hostages taken by Hamas during its unprecedented October 7, 2023 attack on Israel, which ignited the war.

"We're working now on another deal that we hope will succeed, and we're committed to getting all the hostages out," he said.

Trump also doubled down on his plan for the United States to "control" the Gaza Strip, which he described as a "great piece of real estate." He initially announced that plan when Netanyahu last visited him in February.

Earlier, Trump greeted Netanyahu outside the West Wing and pumped his fist, before the two leaders went inside for a meeting in the Oval Office.

Their planned press conference was canceled at short notice without explanation -- an unusual move. But they spoke to a smaller group of pool reporters at length in the Oval Office.

The Israeli premier's visit is his second to Washington since Trump's return to power, and comes at short notice -- just days after the president slapped a 17 percent tariff on Israel in his "Liberation Day" announcement last week.

Trump refused to exempt the top beneficiary of US military aid from his global tariff salvo as he said Washington had a significant trade deficit with Israel.

Netanyahu met with Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick and Trade Representative Jamieson Greer on Sunday soon after his arrival, according to his office.

The Israeli premier also met Trump's special Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff on Monday.​
 
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Iran says deal can be reached if US shows goodwill

Iran’s top diplomat said on Tuesday he believed a new nuclear deal could be agreed with the United States provided Tehran’s long-time foe shows sufficient goodwill in talks to begin in Oman on Saturday...
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Iran says deal can be reached if US shows goodwill
Agence France-Presse . Tehran 08 April, 2025, 22:38

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Iran’s top diplomat said on Tuesday he believed a new nuclear deal could be agreed with the United States provided Tehran’s long-time foe shows sufficient goodwill in talks to begin in Oman on Saturday.

Foreign minister Abbas Araghchi said Iran’s principal aim remained the lifting of sweeping US sanctions. Their reimposition by President Donald Trump in 2018 has dealt a heavy blow to the Iranian economy.

Trump made the surprise announcement that his administration would open talks with Iran during a White House meeting on Monday with Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, whose country is an arch foe of Tehran.

Trump said the talks would be ‘direct’ but Araghchi insisted his negotiations with US Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff on Saturday would be ‘indirect’.

‘We will not accept any other form of negotiation,’ Araghchi told official media. ‘The format of the negotiations is not the most important thing in my view. What really counts is the effectiveness or otherwise of the talks.

‘If the other side shows enough of the necessary willingess, a deal can be found. The ball is in America’s court.’

Speaking Monday in the Oval Office, Trump said he was hopeful of reaching a deal with Tehran, but warned that the Islamic republic would be in ‘great danger’ if the talks failed.

‘We’re dealing with the Iranians, we have a very big meeting on Saturday and we’re dealing with them directly,’ Trump told reporters.

Trump’s announcement came after Iran dismissed direct negotiations on a new deal to curb the country’s nuclear activities, calling the idea pointless.

The US president pulled out of the last deal in 2018, during his first presidency, and there has been widespread speculation that Israel, possibly with US help, might attack Iranian facilities if no new agreement is reached.

Trump issued a stern warning to Tehran, however.

‘I think if the talks aren’t successful with Iran, I think Iran’s going to be in great danger, and I hate to say it, great danger, because they can’t have a nuclear weapon,’ he said.

In an interview with US network NBC late last month. Trump went further. ‘If they don’t make a deal, there will be bombing,’ he said.

China and Russia held consultations with Iran in Moscow on Tuesday, after which the Kremlin welcomed the planned talks.

Key Iranian ally Russia welcomed the prospect of negotiations for a new nuclear accord to replace the deal with major powers that was unilaterally abandoned by Trump in 2018.

‘We know that certain contacts — direct and indirect — are planned in Oman. And, of course, this can only be welcomed because it can lead to de-escalation of tensions around Iran,’ Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said, adding that Moscow ‘absolutely’ supported the initiative.

China called on the United States to ‘stop its wrong practice of using force to exert extreme pressure’ after Trump threatened Iran with bombing if it fails to agree a deal.

‘As the country that unilaterally withdrew from the comprehensive agreement on the Iran nuclear issue and caused the current situation, the United States should demonstrate political sincerity and mutual respect,’ its foreign ministry spokesman Lin Jian said.

Washington should ‘participate in dialogue and consultation, and at the same time stop its wrong practice of using force to exert extreme pressure’, Lin added.

The Israeli prime minister, whose government has also threatened military action against Iran to prevent it developing a nuclear weapon, held talks with Witkoff as well as Trump on Monday.

Netanyahu was a bitter opponent of the 2015 agreement between Iran and Britain, China, France, Germany, Russia and the United States which Trump later abandoned.

That deal saw Iran receive relief from international sanctions in return for restrictions on its nuclear activities overseen by the UN watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency.

Trump’s withdrawal from the deal was followed by an Iranian decision one year later to stop complying with its own obligations under the deal.

The result has been that Iran has built up large stocks of highly enriched uranium that leave it a short step from weapons grade.

In its latest quarterly report in February, the IAEA said Iran had an estimated 274.8 kilograms of uranium enriched to up to 60 per cent. Weapons grade is around 90 per cent.​
 
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Witkoff and Araghchi: The men leading US-Iran nuclear talks

With no prior experience in foreign policy, he landed one of the world's biggest jobs as US President Donald Trump's special envoy to
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Witkoff and Araghchi: The men leading US-Iran nuclear talks
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Published: 10 Apr 2025, 20: 23

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US special envoy Steve Witkoff and Iran's foreign minister Abbas Araghchi will be in Oman for breakthrough talks on Tehran's nuclear programme this weekend.

Here are short profiles of the two negotiators:

Witkoff: real estate to world stage

With no prior experience in foreign policy, he landed one of the world's biggest jobs as US President Donald Trump's special envoy to the Middle East, and has since led high-stakes talks on Gaza and Ukraine.

Real estate magnate Steve Witkoff first stepped into the spotlight when his close friend Trump credited him with sealing a truce in the Israel-Hamas war.

While the ceasefire collapsed weeks later, it did enable the release of 25 living hostages and the return of eight others' remains.

Witkoff, a 68-year-old billionaire and a regular golfing partner of Trump's, later became the first US official to visit Gaza since the war began with Hamas's 2023 attack on Israel.

He defended Trump's stunning suggestion that he wanted to "take over" the Palestinian territory and move out its two million inhabitants.

"When the president talks about cleaning it out, he talks about making it habitable, and this is a long-range plan," Witkoff told reporters at the White House.

Witkoff has also spearheaded negotiations on Ukraine, with Trump U-turning on his predecessor Joe Biden's policy on Russia.

He was in Russia to meet Russian President Vladimir Putin when a scandal erupted over a leaked Yemen air strike chat on the Signal app that involved National Security Advisor Mike Waltz and other officials.

Witkoff himself has drawn criticism from Ukraine's leader Volodymyr Zelensky over his praise for Putin and for appearing to legitimise Russia's annexation of parts of Ukraine.

In March, he was Trump's man in Saudi Arabia for talks on Ukraine, voicing optimism that any agreement struck could pave the way for a "full-on" ceasefire.

Trump has made it a foreign policy goal to end wars that Biden could not stop, meaning that the stakes could hardly be higher for Witkoff.

Ultimately, Witkoff's win in Gaza was short-lived, with US ally Israel restarting intense strikes on 18 March.

On Ukraine, the Russian president has yet to accept a long-term truce.

Born on 15 March 1957, in the New York borough of the Bronx, Witkoff made his fortune in real estate, first as a corporate lawyer and then at the head of big realty firms.

In 1997, he founded the Witkoff Group, which describes itself as "one part developer, one part investor (and) one part landscape-changer." His wife and a son work there.

Araghchi: Iran's career diplomat

A career diplomat and key architect of the 2015 nuclear accord, Araghchi will be pushing the United States to lift its punishing sanctions on Iran.

The 62-year-old, who hails from a family of carpet traders, is fluent in English and has a long career spanning multiple roles in Iran's foreign ministry.

With his crisp beard and salt-and-pepper hair, Araghchi is known for his calm demeanour. He typically wears a suit and a tie-less white mandarin-collared shirt, a standard look among Iranian diplomats.

He holds a bachelor's degree from the foreign ministry's Faculty of International Relations, a master's in political science from the Islamic Azad University, and a doctorate in political thought from the University of Kent in England.

Following the 1979 Islamic revolution, Araghchi joined the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.

He served on the front lines during the Iran-Iraq war in the 1980s before joining the foreign ministry as an expert on international affairs.

Araghchi was appointed foreign minister after President Masoud Pezeshkian, who has called for reviving talks with the West, took office in July.

He was the chief negotiator at the talks that culminated in the 2015 landmark nuclear deal with world powers, which imposed curbs on Iran's nuclear programme in return for sanctions relief.

The Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) fell apart after the United States, during Donald Trump's first term, unilaterally withdrew from it and reimposed sweeping economic sanctions.

Araghchi remains a fervent supporter of the deal but said in a recent interview with Khabar Online news agency that the JCPOA "cannot be revived in its current form and text."

"Our nuclear programme has advanced significantly and we can no longer return to the conditions of the JCPOA," he said, adding that the deal "can still be a basis and a model for negotiations".​
 
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!
 
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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 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.​
 
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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
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Apr 12, 2025 21:31
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Apr 12, 2025 21:31

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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.​
 
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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.​
 
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What took these people a decade to find out about this installation? Wow.
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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.
 
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Iran says talks with US to focus solely on nuclear issue, lifting sanctions

Iran’s foreign ministry said Sunday that talks with the United States slated for next weekend will remain ‘indirect’ with Omani mediation, and focused solely on the nuclear issue and lifting of sanctions....
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Iran says talks with US to focus solely on nuclear issue, lifting sanctions
Agence France-Presse . Tehran, Iran 13 April, 2025, 16:56

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Iran’s foreign ministry said Sunday that talks with the United States slated for next weekend will remain ‘indirect’ with Omani mediation, and focused solely on the nuclear issue and lifting of sanctions.

Iranian foreign minister Abbas Araghchi and US Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff held talks Saturday in Muscat, marking the highest-level Iran-US nuclear negotiations since the collapse of a 2015 accord.

They agreed to meet again in seven days.

‘Negotiations will continue to be indirect. Oman will remain the mediator, but we are discussing the location of future negotiations,’ foreign ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baqaei said in an interview with state TV.

He said that the talks would only focus on ‘the nuclear issue and the lifting of sanctions,’ and that Iran ‘will not have any talks with the American side on any other issue.’

Analysts had said the US would push to include on the agenda discussions over Iran’s ballistic missile programme along with Tehran’s support for the ‘axis of resistance’ -- a network of militant groups opposed to Israel.

Tehran has, however, maintained it will talk only about its nuclear programme.

Donald Trump in 2018 pulled out of the 2015 nuclear deal between Iran and world powers during his first term as US president.

Saturday’s rare negotiations came weeks after Trump sent a letter to Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei urging nuclear talks while warning of possible military action if Iran refuses.

Iran and the US separately described Saturday’s discussions as ‘constructive’.

Iran said that the talks were held indirectly with Oman’s foreign minister acting as intermediary.

The negotiators, Araghchi and Witkoff, spoke directly for ‘a few minutes’ after the talks, Tehran’s foreign ministry said.

Another round of talks will be held on Saturday, April 19.

Asked about the talks, Trump told journalists aboard Air Force One: ‘I think they’re going OK. Nothing matters until you get it done.’

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

Iran, reeling from 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.

On Sunday, Iranian media largely welcomed the rare talks as a ‘decisive turning point’ in relations between the longtime foes.

Iran’s conservative Javan daily praised the US for ‘not seeking to expand the negotiations to non-nuclear issues’.

The government-sponsored newspaper, Iran, described the discussions as ‘constructive and respectful,’ quoting Araghchi.

Meanwhile, the reformist Shargh newspaper said it was a ‘decisive turning point’ in Iran-US relations.

The hardline Kayhan newspaper, which was largely sceptical in the days leading up to the talks, lamented that Iran does not have a ‘plan B’ while there was ‘no clear prospect for an agreement with Donald Trump.’

It, however, lauded the fact that the American side did not bring up ‘the dismantling of nuclear facilities’ and ‘the possibility of a military attack’ during the discussions.

Tehran and Washington have had no diplomatic relations since shortly after Iran’s 1979 Islamic Revolution that toppled the Western-backed shah.

Iran has been wary about engaging in talks with the United States, often citing previous experience and undermined trust.

After pulling out of the 2015 nuclear deal Trump reimposed sweeping economic sanctions against Iran.

Tehran continued to adhere to the agreement for a year after Washington’s pullout but later began rolling back its own commitments.

Iran has consistently denied seeking to acquire nuclear weapons.​
 
Man this MQ-9 Reaper is very quickly claiming the title of most shot down drone after the TB-2 bayraftar drone.......

Its getting sick guys. Iranian 358 L/M shot it down as usual........its a massacre really.

The USAF/ USN aviation refuses to go near Yemen and all US attacks are just pin picks via BGM-109Q's or the JSSM.

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Yemeni Forces Shoot Down Another US MQ-9 Drone - World news - Tasnim News Agency

TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Yemen’s armed forces said on Sunday they had downed an American MQ-9 drone, marking the 19th such incident amid escalating confrontations with the United States and Israel.
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Trump says Iran must give up dream of nuclear weapon or face harsh response

President Donald Trump said on Monday he believes Iran is intentionally delaying a nuclear deal with the United States and that it must abandon any drive for a nuclear weapon or face a possible military strike on Tehran's atomic facilities. "I think they're tapping us along," Trump told reporters
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Trump says Iran must give up dream of nuclear weapon or face harsh response
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Apr 15, 2025 00:15

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President Donald Trump said on Monday he believes Iran is intentionally delaying a nuclear deal with the United States and that it must abandon any drive for a nuclear weapon or face a possible military strike on Tehran's atomic facilities.

"I think they're tapping us along," Trump told reporters after US special envoy Steve Witkoff met in Oman on Saturday with a senior Iranian official.

Both Iran and the United States said on Saturday that they held "positive" and "constructive" talks in Oman. A second round is scheduled for Saturday, and a source briefed on the planning said the meeting was likely to be held in Rome.

The source, speaking to Reuters on the condition of anonymity, said the discussions are aimed at exploring what is possible, including a broad framework of what a potential deal would look like.

"Iran has to get rid of the concept of a nuclear weapon. They cannot have a nuclear weapon," Trump said.

Asked if US options for a response include a military strike on Tehran's nuclear facilities, Trump said: "Of course it does."

Trump said the Iranians need to move fast to avoid a harsh response because "they're fairly close" to developing a nuclear weapon.

The US and Iran held indirect talks during former President Joe Biden's term but they made little, if any progress. The last known direct negotiations between the two governments were under then-President Barack Obama, who spearheaded the 2015 international nuclear deal that Trump later abandoned.​
 
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Trump says Iran must give up dream of nuclear weapon or face harsh response

President Donald Trump said on Monday he believes Iran is intentionally delaying a nuclear deal with the United States and that it must abandon any drive for a nuclear weapon or face a possible military strike on Tehran's atomic facilities. "I think they're tapping us along," Trump told reporters
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Trump says Iran must give up dream of nuclear weapon or face harsh response
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President Donald Trump said on Monday he believes Iran is intentionally delaying a nuclear deal with the United States and that it must abandon any drive for a nuclear weapon or face a possible military strike on Tehran's atomic facilities.

"I think they're tapping us along," Trump told reporters after US special envoy Steve Witkoff met in Oman on Saturday with a senior Iranian official.

Both Iran and the United States said on Saturday that they held "positive" and "constructive" talks in Oman. A second round is scheduled for Saturday, and a source briefed on the planning said the meeting was likely to be held in Rome.

The source, speaking to Reuters on the condition of anonymity, said the discussions are aimed at exploring what is possible, including a broad framework of what a potential deal would look like.

"Iran has to get rid of the concept of a nuclear weapon. They cannot have a nuclear weapon," Trump said.

Asked if US options for a response include a military strike on Tehran's nuclear facilities, Trump said: "Of course it does."

Trump said the Iranians need to move fast to avoid a harsh response because "they're fairly close" to developing a nuclear weapon.

The US and Iran held indirect talks during former President Joe Biden's term but they made little, if any progress. The last known direct negotiations between the two governments were under then-President Barack Obama, who spearheaded the 2015 international nuclear deal that Trump later abandoned.​
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He's a liar. Witcoff didn't utter a pip squeak on any of Iran's red lines. Nothing whatsoever!

Trump sahb has agreed to Iran doing whatever it is doing just so as long as it doesn't destroy Israel......

He has even hinted at investing in Iran.

Everything's been totally turned on its head.

Irans position is strong and Trump knows attacking Iran is pointless. If he uses nukes it will be geo-political suicide by the US.

Conventional attack won't even scratch Iran.

The only way we'll take Trumps anti-Iran seriously is if the US invades Lebanon or Yemen and physically dismatles hezb or Hoosi's......with 250k boots on da ground like hollywood war filumm.

I mean its over guys.......we were all fooled all this while.
 
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Conventional attack won't even scratch Iran.
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I think Iranian military is not strong enough to repel U.S attack. Due to Western sanction, Iran has failed to build a strong military.......some people even say that Iranian military is a joke. The only weapon Iran has which could inflict damage to the U.S. army is their missiles. If Iran can save its missile arsenal from the USAF then they can resist an U.S. attack for a few weeks.
 
Saif said:
I think Iranian military is not strong enough to repel U.S attack. Due to Western sanction, Iran has failed to build a strong military.......some people even say that Iranian military is a joke. The only weapon Iran has which could inflict damage to the U.S. army is their missiles. If Iran can save its missile arsenal from the USAF then they can resist an U.S. attack for a few weeks.
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US has been pounding hezb, hamas hoosi and Iraqi militias for last two years and nothing has happened. Assad fell because both Russia and Iran withdrew support because he was just infiltrated by Mossad and NATO intelligence and because of his negligence Soleimani got killed along with many other IRGC commanders. So both dropped their support and he fell very quickly.

Rest of the resistance axis is doing good!

Final warning of Iranian deputy foreign minister to trump:



The US has basically surrendered to Iran in the negotiations.
 

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