[🇮🇷] Iran's Nuclear Program

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Trump hopes to avoid strikes on Iran nuclear sites

US president Donald Trump said on Thursday he hoped to avoid military strikes on Iran’s nuclear programme, an option long mulled by Israel.

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Trump hopes to avoid strikes on Iran nuclear sites
Agence France-Presse . Washington 24 January, 2025, 21:25

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US president Donald Trump. | File photo

US president Donald Trump said on Thursday he hoped to avoid military strikes on Iran’s nuclear programme, an option long mulled by Israel.

Asked if he would support military action against Iranian nuclear facilities, Trump told reporters he was going to speak to unspecified ‘very high-level people’ about the issue.

‘That could be worked out without having to worry about it,’ Trump said of the Iranian nuclear issue.

‘It would be really nice if that could be worked out without having to go that further step,’ he said of military action.

On diplomatic prospects with Iran, Trump said, ‘Iran hopefully will make a deal — and if they don’t make a deal, I guess that’s OK, too.’

Trump during his first term withdrew from a nuclear deal negotiated under former president Barack Obama and imposed sweeping sanctions, winning praise from Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu who calls Tehran’s cleric-run government an existential threat.

Trump, who vowed ‘maximum pressure’ on Iran, also ordered a 2020 strike that killed senior Iranian general Qassem Soleimani in Baghdad.

But Trump backed off on calls for wider military action and, since winning another term, has distanced himself from advisors who chose a hawkish course on Iran.

According to The New York Times, Elon Musk, the billionaire entrepreneur and Trump confidante, met a senior Iranian official after the election to seek to defuse tensions.

Meanwhile, Trump will reach out to Kim Jong Un again, he said in an interview aired on Thursday, calling the North Korean leader with whom he previously met three times a ‘smart guy.’

The Republican had a rare diplomatic relationship with the reclusive Kim during his previous administration from 2017 to 2021, not only meeting with him but saying the two ‘fell in love.’

But his own secretary of state, Marco Rubio, acknowledged at his confirmation hearing that the effort did not produce any lasting agreement to end North Korea’s nuclear programme.

When asked during a Fox News interview if he would ‘reach out’ to Kim again, Trump replied: ‘I will, yeah. He liked me.’

North Korea says it is seeking nuclear weapons to counter threats from the United States and its allies, including South Korea.

The two Koreas remain technically at war since the 1950 to 1953 conflict ended in an armistice not a peace treaty.

The isolated and impoverished North, which has conducted multiple nuclear tests and periodically test fires missiles from its ballistic arsenal, also likes to tout its nuclear program as a sign of its prestige.

Washington and others warn that the programme is destabilising, however, and the UN has passed multiple resolutions banning North Korea’s efforts.

Rubio branded Kim a ‘dictator’ during his Senate confirmation hearing earlier this month.

‘I think there has to be an appetite for a very serious look at broader North Korean policies,’ Rubio said.

Rubio called for efforts to prevent a war by North Korea with South Korea and Japan and to see ‘what can we do to prevent a crisis without encouraging other nation-states to pursue their own nuclear weapons programs.’

During the Fox interview, Trump recalled his attempt to reach an arms deal with North Korea’s allies Russia and China at the end of his first term.

The 2019 effort would have set new limits for unregulated Russian nuclear weapons and to persuade China to join an arms control pact, according to reports from the time.

‘I was very close to having a deal. I would have made a deal with (Russian leader Vladimir) Putin on that, denuclearisation. But we had a bad election that interrupted us,’ he said, referring to his 2020 loss to Democrat Joe Biden.

Trump’s nominee to lead the Pentagon, Pete Hegseth, recently labelled North Korea as a ‘nuclear power’ in a statement submitted to a Senate panel, according to reports.

Seoul’s defence ministry said in response that Pyongyang’s status as a nuclear power ‘cannot be recognised’ and that it will work with Washington to denuclearise.

Pyongyang fired several short-range ballistic missiles in the days leading up to Trump’s inauguration on January 20, prompting analysts to speculate on whether Kim was seeking to send a message to Trump.​

he'll get his ass handed to him if he does anything of the sort.

Haan, weak colonized Pakistan, Al-Egypt, Sawdi Judea or Al-Turkiya he can do this to without lifting much as a finger other than the stroke of a pen.

 

[Saif]

Iran says ready for N-talks if West is ‘serious’

Iran is ready to discuss its nuclear programme if Western countries show they are ‘serious’, the foreign ministry spokesman was quoted as saying in an interview published on Thursday.

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Iran says ready for N-talks if West is ‘serious’
Agence France-Presse . Tehran 30 January, 2025, 22:58

Iran is ready to discuss its nuclear programme if Western countries show they are ‘serious’, the foreign ministry spokesman was quoted as saying in an interview published on Thursday.

‘We have said several times that we are ready for discussions, but only if the other side is serious about this,’ Esmaeil Baqaei told the government daily Iran.

Tehran has signalled to the West several times recently indicating a willingness to reach an agreement over its nuclear programme.

In an interview with Sky News posted to his official Telegram channel on Tuesday, foreign minister Abbas Araghchi said the new US administration should work to win back Tehran’s trust if it wants a new round of nuclear talks.

In Thursday’s interview, Baqaei expressed hope that new US president Donald Trump would adopt a ‘realistic approach’ towards Iran.

During his first term that ended in 2021, Trump pursued a policy of ‘maximum pressure’, withdrawing the United States from a landmark nuclear deal which imposed curbs on Iran’s nuclear programme in return for sanctions relief.

Asked about the possibility of new talks, Baqaei was quoted on Thursday as saying Iran’s policy would depend on ‘the actions of the other parties’.

Tehran adhered to the deal — known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action — until a year after Washington’s withdrawal in 2018, but then began rolling back its commitments.

Efforts to revive the 2015 nuclear pact have since faltered. Iran has repeatedly expressed willingness to revive the nuclear deal, and president Masoud Pezeshkian, who took office last July, has called for an end to his country’s isolation.

Before Trump’s return to the White House, Iranian officials held nuclear talks with counterparts from Britain, France and Germany that both sides described as ‘frank and constructive’.

In December, the three Western governments accused Tehran of growing its stockpile of highly enriched uranium to ‘unprecedented levels’ without ‘any credible civilian justification’ and discussed the possible reimposition of sanctions.

On Thursday, Baqaei warned that if this happened, Iran’s adherence to the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty ‘would no longer have any meaning’.

Under the NPT, signatory states are obliged to declare their nuclear stockpiles and place them under the supervision of the International Atomic Energy Agency.​

 

[Saif]

Iran not seeking nuclear weapons, says president

Iranian president Masoud Pezeshkian said Thursday that his country was not seeking a nuclear weapon, a day after US President Donald Trump called for a new agreement to prevent it from obtaining one.

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Iran not seeking nuclear weapons, says president
Agence France-Presse . Tehran 06 February, 2025, 22:29

Iranian president Masoud Pezeshkian. | File photo

Iranian president Masoud Pezeshkian said Thursday that his country was not seeking a nuclear weapon, a day after US President Donald Trump called for a new agreement to prevent it from obtaining one.

‘We are not seeking nuclear weapons,’ Pezeshkian said in a meeting with foreign diplomats in Tehran, adding that ‘verifying this issue is an easy task’.

On Wednesday, Trump called for a ‘verified nuclear peace agreement’ with Iran, adding that it ‘cannot have a Nuclear Weapon’.

The US president had a day earlier reinstated his ‘maximum pressure’ policy against Iran over allegations the country is seeking nuclear weapons capability.

Iran lambasted the reinstatement of the policy, saying pursuing it again would end in ‘failure’.

Under that policy during his first term, which ended in 2021, Washington withdrew from a landmark nuclear deal that had imposed curbs on Iran’s nuclear programme in return for sanctions relief.

Tehran adhered to the deal—known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action — until a year after Washington pulled out, but then began rolling back its commitments.

Efforts to revive the 2015 deal have since faltered.

During Thursday’s meeting, which was broadcast on television, Pezeshkian referred to a long-standing fatwa, or religious edict, by Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei prohibiting atomic weapons.

He noted that Iran was not pursuing such weapons because ‘massacring innocent people is not acceptable in the doctrine of the Islamic Republic of Iran’.​

 

[Lulldapull]

They just want Iran to turn into yet another chutiya muslim country like the rest of em.

Harmless and compliant.....lol......Wind up its weapon programs, missiles and drones and nukes and disband all resistance groups.

Become like Sawdi Judea, Al-Egypt, Pakistan or Al-Turkiya and suck dick on demand.

 

[Saif]

Iran rules out ‘direct talks’ with US on nuclear issue

Iranian foreign minister Abbas Araghchi on Tuesday dismissed the possibility of direct negotiations with the United States on his country’s nuclear programme.

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Iran rules out ‘direct talks’ with US on nuclear issue
Agence France-Presse . Tehran 25 February, 2025, 22:54

Iranian foreign minister Abbas Araghchi on Tuesday dismissed the possibility of direct negotiations with the United States on his country’s nuclear programme.

‘There will be no possibility of direct talks between us and the United States on the nuclear issue as long as the maximum pressure is applied in this way,’ Araghchi said during a joint press conference with his visiting Russian counterpart, referring to president Donald Trump’s hard-line approach to Tehran.​

 

[Saif]

Iran won’t negotiate under US ‘bullying’

Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said later on Saturday that Iran will not be bullied into negotiations, a day after US President Donald Trump said he had sent a letter to the country’s top authority urging Tehran to negotiate a nuclear deal.

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Iran won’t negotiate under US ‘bullying’
Says Supreme Leader Khamenei

Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said later on Saturday that Iran will not be bullied into negotiations, a day after US President Donald Trump said he had sent a letter to the country's top authority urging Tehran to negotiate a nuclear deal.

In an interview with Fox Business, Trump said, "There are two ways Iran can be handled: militarily, or you make a deal" to prevent Tehran from acquiring nuclear weapons.

At a meeting with senior Iranian officials, Khamenei said Washington's aim was to "impose their own expectations," Iranian state media reported.

"The insistence of some bullying governments on negotiations is not to resolve issues. ... Talks for them is a pathway to have new demands, it is not only about Iran's nuclear issue. ... Iran will definitely not accept their expectations," Khamenei was quoted as saying, without directly mentioning Trump.

In response to Khamenei's comments, White House National Security Council spokesman Brian Hughes reiterated almost word for word the choice of negotiations or military action that Trump said he had presented to Iran.

"We hope the Iran Regime puts its people and best interests ahead of terror," Hughes said in a statement.

While expressing openness to a deal with Tehran, Trump has reinstated a "maximum pressure" campaign that was applied during his first term as president to isolate Iran from the global economy and drive its oil exports to zero.​

 

[Saif]

Attack on Iran's nuclear sites would contaminate Gulf water supply, Qatar PM says

Qatar's prime minister has warned that an attack on Iran's nuclear facilities would "entirely contaminate" the waters of the Gulf and threaten life in Qatar, the UAE and Kuwait. The three desert states, facing Iran on the opposite side of the Gulf, have minimal natural water reserves and are home

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Attack on Iran's nuclear sites would contaminate Gulf water supply, Qatar PM says
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Mar 09, 2025 21:55
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Mar 09, 2025 21:55

Qatari Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani speaks after a meeting with the Lebanese president at the presidential palace in Baabda, Lebanon Feb 4, 2025. Photo : REUTERS/Emilie Madi

Qatar's prime minister has warned that an attack on Iran's nuclear facilities would "entirely contaminate" the waters of the Gulf and threaten life in Qatar, the UAE and Kuwait.

The three desert states, facing Iran on the opposite side of the Gulf, have minimal natural water reserves and are home to more than 18 million people whose only supply of potable water is desalinated water drawn from the Gulf.

Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani warned that an attack on Iran's nuclear sites would leave the Gulf with "no water, no fish, nothing ... no life".

US President Donald Trump has said he wants to negotiate a nuclear deal with Iran and has suggested to Tehran that the two countries open talks. Trump has also reinstated a "maximum pressure" campaign that was applied during his first term as president to isolate Iran from the global economy and drive its oil exports to zero.

Sheikh Mohammed urged a diplomatic solution to avoid a military strike on Iran that would trigger a "war that will spread all over the region".

"There is no way that Qatar would support any kind of military step ... we will not give up until we see a diplomatic solution," he said in an interview with US conservative media personality Tucker Carlson that was posted on Friday.

Iran denies seeking nuclear weapons and its supreme leader said on Saturday that Iran would not be bullied into negotiations.

Qatar assessed several years ago that it was at risk of running out of potable water after three days in the event of an attack on Iran's nuclear sites, Sheikh Mohammed said.

The Gulf Arab state, where temperatures reach 50C in the summer, has since built 15 of the world's largest concrete water reservoirs to boost its emergency water supply.

Qatar's prime minister specifically mentioned his country, Kuwait and the UAE, and said some of Iran's nuclear sites were closer to Doha than they were to Tehran. Iran's only operating nuclear power plant is on the Gulf coast at Bushehr.

Gas-rich Qatar is closely allied with the US and hosts the biggest American military base in the Middle East, but it also maintains ties with Iran, with which it shares the world's largest known gas field.

During his 2017-2021 term, Trump withdrew the US from a deal between Iran and major powers that had placed strict limits on Tehran's nuclear activities in exchange for sanctions relief.

After Trump pulled out in 2018 and re-imposed sanctions, Iran breached and far surpassed those limits.​

 

[Saif]

Will Iran be bombed or have a bomb?

‘DO WHATEVER the hell you want,’ said Iran’s president Masoud Pezeshkian after being fed up with Donald Trump’s maximum pressure tactic on Iran’s nuclear programme. He wants Iran to ‘agree to never make a nuclear weapon.’ He offered Iran to choose between military action and peace talks. He sent...

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Will Iran be bombed or have a bomb?
Mohammad Abdur Razzak 17 March, 2025, 00:00

A handout picture released by the official web site of Iran’s Supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on March 12 shows crowds greeting him during a meeting with Iranian students in Tehran. | Agence France-Presse

‘DO WHATEVER the hell you want,’ said Iran’s president Masoud Pezeshkian after being fed up with Donald Trump’s maximum pressure tactic on Iran’s nuclear programme. He wants Iran to ‘agree to never make a nuclear weapon.’ He offered Iran to choose between military action and peace talks. He sent a letter to Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Khamenei on March 5 stating his terms for peace. Ayatollah Khamenei is not comfortable to begin negotiation with a ‘bullying United States.’

Iran agreed to a nuclear deal officially known as Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action which aimed at curbing Iran’s nuclear programme being weaponised. It was a negotiated deal between Iran and P5+1 ie the United States, China, the United Kingdom, France, Russia and Germany. The parties signed the agreement on July 14, 2015 under the Obama administration. The deal infuriated Benjamin Netanyahu.

His loud opposition to the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action strained relations with both the Obama administration and Democrats on the Capitol Hill. ‘His March 2015 appearance before Congress at the invitation of the Republican majority in the House where he incited against the [US] president’s key international policy initiative was unprecedented. Netanyahu’s effort to sink the agreement failed, but the Israeli prime minister [and AIPAC] played an important role in mobilizing congressional opposition to the JCPOA, enabling Donald Trump, notwithstanding the UNSC endorsement [UNSC resolution 2231], to repudiate it.’

Netanyahu is bitterly opposed to any deal even today. He wants military action but not without the United States. He wants the United States to do the job for Israel. According to former IDF chief Yair Golan, ‘Anyone who has some understanding of the issue knows that it would be irresponsible for Israel to handle Iran without the US.…You need to have the US with you.’

Trump entered the White House on January 20, 2017 as the 45th president of the United States in his first term. In a televised address to the Americans in May 2018, he showed his argument for withdrawal withdraw from the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action. He called Iran ‘the leading state sponsor of terror, exporter of dangerous missiles, fuelling conflicts across the Middle East, and supporting terrorist proxies and militias such as Hezbollah, Hamas, the Taliban, and al-Qaeda.’

He blamed the Obama administration for the ‘disastrous’ deal. Referring to an Israeli intelligence document, he said that the report had conclusively showed the Iranian regime was pursuing nuclear weapons. He called the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action ‘horrible’ and ‘one-sided’. He concluded his speech saying that after consultations with ‘our allies and partners around the world, including France, Germany and the United Kingdom… we cannot prevent an Iranian nuclear bomb under the decaying and rotten structure of the current agreement’ and he announced his decision to walk out of the deal. His allies, whom he consulted, did not follow into the US footstep to abandon the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action. The US withdrawal and the re-imposition of sanctions eventually made the deal dysfunctional.

Israel’s chief of staff said in March 2021 that he had viewed the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action as a ‘good deal although it may have flaws.’ According to him, ‘We knew about them from the start. I was deputy chief of staff when the deal was signed and I was responsible for Iran in the General Staff. When the deal arrived, we held a discussion with all the officials and said to ourselves that if Iran complied with it, it would be an amazing achievement. The fact is that without the deal, they’d be closer to nuclear weapons than with it, so we need to take action to improve the deal and then create a new one, rather than fighting it and losing.’

According to an analysis of Zack Beauchamp, a senior correspondent at Vox, ‘The problem, though, is that the deal wasn’t “rotten”. The best evidence we have suggests Iran was actually complying with the deal. Iran has dismantled a huge portion of its nuclear programme and given international inspectors wide latitude to make sure it isn’t cheating; the country is significantly further from a nuclear weapon than it was when the deal came into force.… The Middle East just got a new crisis, and it’s entirely on Trump’s making [in the first term]’ and the second term is making the region dangerously confrontational.

It is an open secret that Israel has achieved nuclear capability in the 1960s and has been enjoying a nuclear monopoly since then. US support for Israel’s conventional military superiority, born out of the arms deals negotiated after June 1967, was intimately related to Washington’s concern about the dangers that Israel’s nukes posed for increased proliferation in the region. The US offered to assure Israel’s regional conventional superiority, and in turn Israel agreed to maintain “ambiguity” about its nuclear arsenal.” Israel maintains a triad of land, sea, and air-launched nuclear-tipped bombs. Israel has its bombs in the basement, implicit and undeclared.

How close is Iran to a bomb? There is debate. The United States and Israel claim that Iran is pursuing to make nuclear weapon. Iran persistently denies the claim and says that its nuclear programme is for a peaceful use. An assessment on Iran’s nuclear programme states, ‘Iran’s nuclear programme has reached the point at which, within about one week, Iran might be able to enrich enough uranium for five fission weapons. For that uranium to pose a nuclear weapon threat, however, it would have to be processed further, and the other components of a successful weapon would have to be ready to receive the processed uranium. Weaponisation activities could take anywhere from several months to a year or more, although the time frame is uncertain.’

As the words of war is intensifying between the United States and Iran, China and Russia backed Ira’s repeated claims that its nuclear programme is ‘peaceful in nature.’ In a joint statement after a trilateral ministerial meeting in Beijing on March 14, China and Russia called for diplomatic talks based on mutual respect and an end to the unilateral illegal sanctions imposed by the United States and its western allies against Iran. If diplomacy fails, the world could see a US military strike against Iran, the last potential challenger to Israel’s conventional military supremacy and nuclear monopoly in the Middle East. Or the world could see Iran displaying a bomb to avert the strike. A gamble between war and peace!

Mohammad Abdur Razzak, a retired commodore of the Bangladesh navy, is a security analyst.​

 

[Sharma Ji]

This stubbornness won't get them anything. Xutias need make a deal now when they have the chance to do so.. in 4 years the US is going right back into either neolib or neocon hands again.. its 4 years of Eid rn as far as Iran is concerned, the devil is locked up.

It gon' get bayd post Trump

these guys have a sledgehammer coming to slap em right atop the head.

 

[Lulldapull]

This stubbornness won't get them anything. Xutias need make a deal now when they have the chance to do so.. in 4 years the US is going right back into either neolib or neocon hands again.. its 4 years of Eid rn as far as Iran is concerned, the devil is locked up.

It gon' get bayd post Trump

these guys have a sledgehammer coming to slap em right atop the head.

oh bhai get real.......these republicrats are the same policy as the dem donkey no?

Kya farq hae?.....lets get reel no?

US is a loser bhai.......they can't do anything.

Even if Trump ka ulla manages the strength to strike Iran, it won't do jack shiit no?

Iranndd already waaaaaay to strong now.

Stronger than both the hendu-pak joker put together no?........lol

Kya hae hendu-pak k paas that can hit the west?.......lol

NOTHING!