The special envoy of the Middle East Steve Witkoff remained firm on Friday that the Trump administration will not allow Iran to develop a nuclear weapon, describing the provocative action as a “red line”, but said that the United States Woudh with operations.
“I think our interfront position dismantling its program. That is our position today,” Witkoff told the Wall Street Journal, explaining what he plans for the Iranian officials of the Count on Saturday in Oman.
“That does not mean, by the way, that, on the margin, we will not find other ways to find commitment between the two countries,” added the special envoy, suggesting that there are some adaptations to the Trump to want to be willing to the possible nuclear ambitions.
“Where our red line will be, there can be no weapons of its nuclear capacity,” Witkoff said.
The United Nations nuclear control agency discovered in February that Iran was accumulating enriched uranium just below the necessary threshold to produce a nuclear weapon.
“The significant increase in the production and accumulation of enriched uranium highly enriched by Iran, the only state of non -nuclear weapon that produces such nuclear material, is of great concern,” said the report of the International Atomic Energy Agency (OIEA) on Iran’s nuclear.
The report pointed out that Tehran had also refused to grant the OIEA request to bring additional inspectors.
Iran argues that the uranium is not enriching a weapon and has long rejected calls to dismantle its nuclear program.
“Trump wants a new agreement: to finish the regional influence of Iran, dismantle his nuclear program and stop his missile work. These are unacceptable for Tehran,” a senior Iranian official told Reuters earlier this week.
“Our nuclear program cannot be dismantled,” the officials added.
Esmaeil Baqaei, spokesman for the Iranian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, said, however, that regime officials would enter the open meeting on Saturday.
“Neith or predict,” said Baqaei on Friday, according to the Wall Street Journal. “We plan to evaluate the intentions and severity on the other side on Saturday and adjust our next agreement movements.”
They are expected to require a reversal of economic sanctions and the restoration of commercial ties with the United States as part of any agreement with the Trump administration.
Witkoff said Saturday’s meeting “is about the construction of trust.”
“It’s about talking about why it is so important for us to reach an agreement, not the exact terms of the agreement,” said the Trump administration official, and said that anyway he would need to make verification measures to ensure that Iran is towards the construction of a nuclear nuclear
Witkoff told the WSJ that it will depend on President Trump to determine how to process if they will see himself banking when his nuclear program.