[🇮🇷] Iran & the USA Relationship

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Trump dismisses reports US is weighing up to $30 billion civilian nuclear deal for Iran

US President Donald Trump on Friday dismissed media reports that said his administration had discussed possibly helping Iran access as much as $30 billion to build a civilian-energy-producing nuclear programme. CNN reported on Thursday and NBC News reported on Friday that the Trump administration

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Trump dismisses reports US is weighing up to $30 billion civilian nuclear deal for Iran

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Jun 28, 2025 22:32
Updated :
Jun 28, 2025 22:32

People walk past an anti-US mural on a street in Tehran, Iran, June 5, 2025. Photo : Majid Asgaripour/WANA (West Asia News Agency) via REUTERS/Files

US President Donald Trump on Friday dismissed media reports that said his administration had discussed possibly helping Iran access as much as $30 billion to build a civilian-energy-producing nuclear programme.

CNN reported on Thursday and NBC News reported on Friday that the Trump administration in recent days had explored possible economic incentives for Iran in return for its government halting uranium enrichment. The reports cited sources.

CNN cited officials as saying that several proposals were floated and were preliminary.

"Who in the Fake News Media is the SleazeBag saying that 'President Trump wants to give Iran $30 Billion to build non-military Nuclear facilities.' Never heard of this ridiculous idea," Trump wrote on Truth Social late on Friday, calling the reports a "HOAX."

Since April, Iran and the US have held indirect talks aimed at finding a new diplomatic solution regarding Iran's nuclear program. Tehran says its programme is peaceful and Washington says it wants to ensure Iran cannot build a nuclear weapon.

Trump, earlier this week, announced a ceasefire between US ally Israel and its regional rival Iran to halt a war that began on Jun 13 when Israel attacked Iran.

The Israel-Iran conflict had raised alarms in a region already on edge since the start of Israel's war in Gaza in October 2023.

The US struck Iran's nuclear sites over the last weekend and Iran targeted a US base in Qatar on Monday in retaliation, before Trump announced the ceasefire.

Israel is the only Middle Eastern country widely believed to have nuclear weapons and said its war against Iran aimed to prevent Tehran from developing its own nuclear weapons.

Iran is a party to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, while Israel is not.

The UN nuclear watchdog, which carries out inspections in Iran, has said it has "no credible indication" of an active, coordinated weapons programme in Iran.​

 

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US just gave $20 billion to Israel last year and Iranian attacks have caused just as much monetary damage. So what is $30 billion bhai? It’s peanuts no?

 

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Iranian lawmaker says Strait of Hormuz still under review, no decision yet to close it

Hardline Iranian lawmaker Esmail Kosari said any closure of the Strait of Hormuz was still under review but no decision has yet been made, in comments carried by Iran's state media on Monday. "Military measures concerning the Strait of Hormuz have been completed, but no decision has yet been made

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Iranian lawmaker says Strait of Hormuz still under review, no decision yet to close it

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Jul 14, 2025 22:19
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Jul 14, 2025 22:19

Hardline Iranian lawmaker Esmail Kosari said any closure of the Strait of Hormuz was still under review but no decision has yet been made, in comments carried by Iran's state media on Monday.

"Military measures concerning the Strait of Hormuz have been completed, but no decision has yet been made regarding its (closure) and the matter is still under review," Kosari, a member of the national security committee in the Iranian parliament, was quoted as saying.

It was not immediately clear what military measures he may be referring to.

The possibility of Iran closing the waterway, through which about a fifth of global oil and gas shipments pass, was speculated upon during the 12-day air war between Israel and Iran last month.

The strait lies between Oman and Iran and links the Gulf with the Gulf of Oman to the south and the Arabian Sea beyond.
Iran has over the years threatened to close it but has never followed through on that threat.

"It's us who decide what time it is open and what time it would be closed; currently we are reviewing and we can execute whenever it's necessary," Kosari added.​

 

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Iran says ‘no specific date’ for US nuclear talks

Iran said Monday it had ‘no specific date’ for a meeting with the United States on Tehran’s nuclear programme, following a war with Israel that had derailed negotiations.

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Iran says ‘no specific date’ for US nuclear talks
Agence France-Presse . Tehran 14 July, 2025, 22:29

Iran said Monday it had ‘no specific date’ for a meeting with the United States on Tehran’s nuclear programme, following a war with Israel that had derailed negotiations.

‘For now, no specific date, time or location has been determined regarding this matter,’ said foreign ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baqaei of plans for a meeting between Iran’s top diplomat Abbas Araghchi and US envoy Steve Witkoff.

Araghchi and Witkoff met starting in April, without concluding a deal after five rounds of talks that were the highest-level contact between their two countries since Washington in 2018 abandoned a landmark nuclear agreement.

The Omani-mediated negotiations were halted as Israel launched surprise strikes on Iran’s nuclear facilities on June 13, starting a 12-day war which the United States later joined.

‘We have been serious in diplomacy and the negotiation process, we entered with good faith, but as everyone witnessed, before the sixth round the Zionist regime, in coordination with the United States, committed military aggression against Iran’, said Baqaei.

Israel and Western nations accuse Iran of pursuing nuclear weapons, a charge Tehran has consistently denied.

While it is the only non-nuclear power to enrich uranium to 60-per cent purity, close to the level needed for a warhead, the UN’s atomic energy watchdog has said it had no indication that Iran was working to weaponise its stockpiles.

Israel’s offensive last month, which it said was aimed at thwarting a nuclear threat from the Islamic republic, killed nuclear scientists and top-ranking military officers as well as hitting military, nuclear and other sites and residential areas.

The United States launched its own set of strikes against Iran’s nuclear programme on June 22, hitting the uranium enrichment facility at Fordo, in Qom province south of Tehran, as well as nuclear sites in Isfahan and Natanz.

The extent of the damage from the strikes remains unknown, and Baqaei said it was ‘still under investigation’.

Iran responded with missile and drone attacks on Israel, and attacked a US base in Qatar in retaliation for Washington’s strikes.

Baqaei said on Monday that Iran remains in contact with Britain, France, and Germany, the three European parties to the 2015 nuclear deal that the United States later withdrew from.

The Europeans have threatened to trigger the ‘snapback’ mechanism under the 2015 agreement, which allows the reimposition of UN sanctions in the event of non-compliance.

Baqaei said Tehran was ‘in continuous contact with these three countries’ but added that he ‘cannot provide an exact date’ for the next meeting with them.

There was ‘no legal, moral or political basis’ for reimposing sanctions, according to Baqaei, as Iran was still committed to the 2015 agreement.

The ministry spokesman added that such a move would be met with an ‘appropriate and proportionate’ response, following Iranian threats to quit the nuclear non-proliferation treaty.

After the United States pulled out of the nuclear accord during Donald Trump’s first term as president, Iran began rolling back its commitments to the agreement that restricts its atomic activities in return for sanctions relief.

‘The Islamic Republic of Iran still considers itself a member of the JCPOA,’ Baqaei said of the 2015 deal.​