President Trump’s most important negotiator gave up the clearest description of the Bottom Line of the administration so far Negotiations on the country’s nuclear programDeclares on Sunday that Tehran must give up all the enrichment of nuclear fuel.
Members of the administration, including Mr Trump himself, have been vague for weeks about whether Iran would get the ability to produce uranium – even in apparently commercial purposes to run the nuclear power stations Iran, says it wants to build. When Mr. Trump left the last nuclear deal with Iran in 2018, he argued that the Obama government had made a big mistake by allowing Iran to retain modest enrichment options that it has since used to produce fuel that is near arms figure.
But the Midden -Oosten -envoy of Mr Trump, Steve Witkoff, told ABCs “this week” on Sunday that enrichment was “one whole, very clear red line” for the administration.
“We can’t have that because enrichment enforcement makes possible, and we will not allow a bomb to come here,” he said. Even “1 percent of an enrichment possibilities” would be too much, he said.
Mr. Witkoff said he expected to meet Iran again, for a fourth negotiating session, somewhere this week in Europe. Officials say that he expects a response to a sketch for an agreement that the United States have transferred to Iran in recent days.
Iran argues that it has the right to enrich under the nuclear non -proliferation agreement that has been in force since 1970 and has said that it will never give up the right to enrich. Mr. Witkoff seems to be looking for a middle ground, and it is not clear what that compromise can be.
But in particular, Mr. Witkoff was not in the interview that Iran destroyed his most important enrichment centers in Natanz and Fordow, including one be built deep under a mountain. That leaves the possibility that Iran could claim that it has the right to enrich, while they do not actually exercise that right.
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