The US President will decide on further action on Tehran in two weeks. During this period, he is determined to resolve the issue of the Iranian nuclear program through negotiations.
US President Donald Trump has given Iran 14 days to reach a new nuclear deal.
This is stated in the NYT article.
As the publication writes, negotiations with Iran have always been difficult and lengthy, and even under the best conditions, discussions of the nuclear program took years.
An earlier deal from the Obama administration that significantly curbed Iran’s uranium enrichment required nearly two years of intense negotiations. After Trump withdrew from the 2018 agreement, the Biden administration spent another 15 months partially restoring it before Ayatollah Ali Khamenei vetoed the preliminary agreement.
“I'm giving them time, and I would say two weeks is the maximum,” Trump told reporters, clarifying that diplomacy could only be a cover for “the coercive part of coercive diplomacy.”
He also added that Iran does not want to talk to Europe.
“They want to talk to us. Europe can't help,” Trump added.
Recall that on June 20, the foreign ministers of Germany, Britain and France, known as the E3 group, as well as the EU's High Representative for Foreign Policy, Kaja Kallas, met with their Iranian counterpart to try to prevent an escalation of the conflict in the Middle East. There were few signs of progress, but the parties agreed to continue negotiations.
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi said Iran was ready to consider diplomatic issues once Israel stopped its attacks and was held accountable. No date was announced for the next meeting, but the Europeans noted the limited space for diplomacy.
The Trump administration is demanding that Iran stop enriching uranium entirely, while the E3 in preliminary talks left it with some room to enrich uranium for civilian purposes in exchange for extremely stringent international inspections. Iran has always rejected the idea of zero enrichment, arguing that it is its sovereign right.
