Could this be the endgame? On Wednesday, while talking to reporters in the Oval Office, President Trump implied that a deal with Iran was imminent - and stated that they have agreed to give up their nuclear weapons program.
.@POTUS: "Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon, and they won't — and, they've agreed to that, among other things." pic.twitter.com/Z8ynfQpS7Y
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The Center Square's Washington, D.C., Bureau Chief, Sarah Roderick-Fitch, has more.
During a Wednesday afternoon news conference in the Oval Office, Trump indicated that Iran has agreed not to have a nuclear weapon – a stipulation in a deal between Iran and the U.S.
“Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon, and they won’t, and they’ve agreed to that, among other things,” Trump told reporters.
The president said a deal with Iran is close, despite making the same claim multiple times since a ceasefire went into place April 7. However, Trump appears to acknowledge the Islamic Republic’s reluctance to reach a deal over the last month after several failed attempts to make a deal.
The president may be referring to a one-page "memorandum of understanding" that would end the immediate conflict and pave the way for more detailed talks.
The White House believes it's getting close to an agreement with Iran on a one-page memorandum of understanding to end the war and set a framework for more detailed nuclear negotiations, according to two U.S. officials and two other sources briefed on the issue.
The big picture: The U.S. expects Iranian responses on several key points in the next 48 hours. Nothing has been agreed yet, but the sources said this was the closest the parties had been to an agreement since the war began.
That's good news - if we can count on it all falling into place, and if Iran doesn't welch at the last minute. Remember, only earlier on Wednesday, President Trump hit Iran with a sternly-worded ultimatum; could this be the result?
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President Trump's brief statement in the Oval Office, though, reflects what he has said all along was the one ironclad condition on which he would not waver: Iran giving up their nuclear weapons program and all of their nuclear material. The president sounded very confident in that remark.
Here's the problem. There's no notion in any of this about Iran's system of government changing for the better. The brutal crackdown on pro-freedom protestors is ongoing in Iran. The mullahs, once the shooting stops, will reemerge from whatever rock they were hiding under, along with the new Supreme Leader, assuming that he hasn't assumed ambient temperature. They will go back to oppressing the citizens. The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, or IRGC, will go back to its usual peacetime vocations of arming and training terrorists. And weapons development will continue.
Why would I say that? Because these people can't be trusted. No deal made with the Islamic Republic is worth the paper it's printed on. We've set them back, militarily, a long way - but there will be no lasting peace in the region, no fresh breath of freedom for the Iranian people, until the IRGC, the mullahs, and the Supreme Leader are no longer running the show in Tehran.
Editor's Note: For decades, former presidents have been all talk and no action. Now, Donald Trump is eliminating the threat from Iran once and for all.
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