On this photograph launched by an official web site of the workplace of the Iranian supreme chief, Supreme Chief Ayatollah Ali Khamenei speaks in a ceremony assembly a bunch of officers, in Tehran, Iran, Saturday, March 8, 2025. (Workplace of the Iranian Supreme Chief through AP)
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President Trump stated he despatched a letter to Iran’s Supreme Chief Ayatollah Ali Khamenei final week asking that the 2 leaders “negotiate” over the Islamic republic’s nuclear program. On Saturday, the Iranian chief condemned the hassle by unnamed “bullying governments” to make a deal over this system.
Trump stated the choice to talks is power throughout an interview with Fox Information’ Sunday Morning Futures.
“There are two ways Iran can be handled, militarily or you make a deal,” Trump stated. “I would prefer to make a deal, because I’m not looking to hurt Iran. They’re great people. I know so many Iranians from this country.”
The president went on to criticize Iran’s management, however stated he is written Iran’s supreme chief personally asking to speak. Khamenei rebuffed the outreach Saturday throughout a gathering with authorities and navy officers.
“The insistence of some bullying governments to negotiate is not to solve problems, but to impose their own expectations,” Khamenei stated, in line with state media. “The Islamic Republic of Iran will definitely not accept their expectations.”
Iran’s nuclear program has been the topic of Western scrutiny for practically 20 years. Iran maintains that its nuclear program is for vitality use solely, however the U.S. and its allies say Iran’s program is a entrance for a nuclear weapons bomb.
On Sunday, Iran appeared to open the door to restricted negotiations. Its UN mission posted on X that Iran would talk about the “militarization” of its nuclear program, however the “dismantlement” of its program is a non-starter.
“Should the aim be the dismantlement of Iran’s peaceful nuclear program to claim that what Obama failed to achieve has now been accomplished, such negotiations will never take place,” Iran’s UN Mission stated.
Whereas Iran says its program is for peaceable functions, its officers have lately threatened to create a bomb within the wake of the Israel-Hamas warfare, in line with a current Home decision by Rep. Jared Moskowitz, D-Fla. And weapons-grade uranium manufacturing has elevated, in line with the Related Press.
Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., informed Fox Information the deal he needs to achieve with Iran.
“Here’s what a good deal looks like to me,” Graham, an influential international coverage voice within the Senate, stated. “No more enrichment for Iran. Take all the highly enriched uranium out of Iran — I’m willing to buy it from them and allow them to have nuclear power where fuel rods are provided by Russia or China or some international group.”
In brief, Graham stated he needs to remove Iran’s “nuclear capability to make a bomb.”
Trump summarized his message to Iran’s chief.
“I said, ‘I hope you’re going to negotiate, because it’s going to be a lot better for Iran,'” Trump recounted to Fox Information’ Maria Bartiromo. “And I think they want to get that letter. The other alternative is, we have to do something, because you can’t let them have a nuclear weapon.”
