WASHINGTON.- The president donald trump This Wednesday, he urged Iran to “wake up” in the face of the stagnation of negotiations to end two months of war, whose main obstacle is Tehran’s thorny nuclear program.
Several rounds of dialogue between Washington and Tehran to end this conflict that has disrupted the world economy have not produced results, which is beginning to frustrate the Republican magnate in the midst of a fragile ceasefire in force between the parties.
“Iran is not capable of organizing. They do not know how to sign a non-nuclear agreement. They better wake up soon!” Trump wrote on his Truth Social network, along with an artificially created image in which he appears with dark glasses, a rifle and the message: “Mr. Good is over.”
According to press reports, the president is skeptical of a recent proposal by Iran to unblock the Strait of Hormuz, a key route for the transit of hydrocarbons.
And he even ordered his team to prepare to continue applying the siege he imposed on Iranian ports for a long time.
Trump does not believe that Tehran is negotiating in good faith, and is confident he can force the Islamic republic to suspend uranium enrichment for 20 years and accept strict restrictions thereafter, anonymous officials quoted by The Wall Street Journal said.
Iran oil
In a meeting held on Monday in the White House crisis room, Trump considered that both resuming the bombing and withdrawing from the conflict were too risky options, according to a newspaper article.
Instead, according to the report, he told his advisers that the Navy would continue to pressure Iran’s key oil exports until Tehran accepted all of Washington’s demands, a scenario the Islamic republic has already ruled out.
Amid the expectation for the future of the negotiations, the head of the Pentagon, Pete Hegseth, will make his first appearance before the US Congress on the war in the Middle East this Wednesday.
The Secretary of Defense, highly criticized by the Democratic opposition for the little information that has been provided to them, will answer questions from members of the House of Representatives Armed Forces Committee along with Dan Caine, the chief of the United States General Staff.
“Good negotiators”
Tehran’s latest proposal, conveyed by mediator Pakistan and discussed by Trump and his advisers in their meeting on Monday, establishes red lines that included Tehran’s nuclear program and Hormuz, according to the Fars news agency. Iran insists that its atomic program is purely civilian.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Tuesday called that offer “better” than they thought, but questioned whether the officials behind it had authority, following Israel’s assassinations of numerous senior officials in the Islamic republic.
Rubio, in an interview with Fox News, said Washington demands that the Strait of Hormuz operate as it did before the war. During peacetime, 20% of the crude oil and liquefied natural gas consumed worldwide passes through there.
“They are very good negotiators,” Rubio said, adding that any final agreement must be one “that definitively prevents them from going after a nuclear weapon.”
Iranian Defense Ministry spokesman Reza Talaei Nik, however, warned that Washington “must abandon its illegal and irrational demands.”
“The United States is no longer in a position to dictate its policy to independent nations,” he said, according to state television.
