Just weeks ago, Trump said Tehran had ‘agreed to everything’. Why is he now pushing a half-measure? |
Just weeks ago, Trump said Tehran had ‘agreed to everything’. Why is he now pushing a half-measure?
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Washington: It was April 17, nearly three weeks ago, when Donald Trump declared Iran had “agreed to everything” he wanted and, in a flurry of social media posts and interviews, cast the war as all but over.
Iran’s parliamentary Speaker, Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, one of the regime’s key negotiators, responded by saying Trump had made seven claims in just one hour, and all of them were false.
Ghalibaf seems to have been closer to the mark. Three weeks later, Trump’s hopes for a deal to end the war are now confined to a one-page memorandum that would trigger another 30 days of negotiations on the details.
The document’s existence was widely covered by American news outlets on Wednesday (US time) after it was first reported by Barak Ravid at Axios, who relayed that it contained 14 points. Iran was poised to formally respond.
This masthead hasn’t seen the purported memorandum. According to The Wall Street Journal, it insists upon Iran attesting that it doesn’t seek nuclear weapons, dismantling its three main nuclear sites (or what’s left of them) and submitting to on-demand inspections with penalties attached. The........