“End Nuclear Insanity Before Nuclear Insanity Ends Humanity” ~llaw
May 01, 2025
LLAW’s NUCLEAR WORLD NEWS TODAY and the GLOBAL RISKS & CONSEQUENCES TOMORROW
In My Opinion:
So it is — by now easily predictable — that Trump has introduced another last minute issue into the the pile of “mind changes” that now has Iran on the verge of cancelling the talks altogether, but they are being held hostage by Trump that if they don’t reach a deal he will bomb their existing nuclear facilities.
This is the kind of delay and ‘rule changing’ game 4th grade kids play on the school playground, which seems to me to be about the level of Trump’s “art of the deal” because of which countries, allies and enemies alike, around the world are unwilling to take Trump and the U.S. seriously about much of anything that is concerned with international politics and avoiding war.
This delay issue is a last minute Yemen problem that Trump’s under fire defense secretary was described this way in the BBC article below: It comes after US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth on Thursday warned that Iran would “pay the consequence” for its support of Yemen’s Houthi rebels. Washington has also announced sanctions this week on companies it says have links to Tehran.
Is this an excuse for another delay? I think it’s obvious that it is. And Iran has already been told they would “pay the consequence”, not for supporting Yemen rebels which is an add-on for what appears to simply create another delay of Trump’s ability to to actually honestly sit down and negotiate the deal rather than add questionable issues every few days which are all over the place — sounding like nothing more than unknown excuses for delaying talks and negotiations.
Trump seems about to bow out of a futile effort to negotiate a peaceful compromise that he said as just another campaign lie he could resolve between Russia and Ukraine in 24 hours, then said after the his election it’s “gonna take a little longer”, and now appears it can’t be done. He came up with nothing more than the “laughable” idea that Ukraine should just give it all back to Russia and “forget about it”.
Perhaps that will be what happens in the Iran/U.S. nuclear talks as well . . . ~llaw
US President Donald Trump wrote to Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei in March, offering to begin nuclear talks. See “BBC” article below for photo credits. ~llaw
Next round of Iran-US nuclear talks postponed
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Kasra Naji & Maia Davies
BBC News
US President Donald Trump wrote to Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei in March, offering to begin nuclear talks
A fourth round of Iran-US talks over Tehran’s nuclear programme has been postponed.
The foreign minister of Oman, facilitating negotiations, said Saturday’s talks in Rome were being rescheduled because of logistical reasons, adding that a new date would be set when agreed by all sides.
It comes after US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth on Thursday warned that Iran would “pay the consequence” for its support of Yemen’s Houthi rebels. Washington has also announced sanctions this week on companies it says have links to Tehran.
President Donald Trump pulled the US out of a previous nuclear agreement between Iran and five other world powers in 2018, and has long said he would make a “better” deal.
Trump has previously warned of military action if these new talks, which began in April, do not succeed. Both sides described the first round of talks in Oman’s capital Muscat as “constructive”.
Iran’s foreign ministry confirmed that latest stage of talks had been postponed, but Washington is yet to officially comment.
However, an unnamed US source told the Reuters news agency that Washington “never confirmed” its participation in the fourth round of talks, nor had their timing been confirmed.
The delay is unlikely to mean that the talks have broken down, with both sides eager to avoid war.
But reports from Tehran have described growing doubt about the usefulness of the talks, pointing to the new sanctions and what Tehran calls contradictory positions from the US delegation.
Part of Trump’s “maximum pressure” policy toward Tehran, the sanctions announced on Wednesday target entities said by the US to be involved in the illicit trade of Iranian petroleum and petrochemicals.
The US State Department said in a statement: “The Iranian regime continues to fuel conflict in the Middle East, advance its nuclear program, and support its terrorist partners and proxies.
“Today, the United States is taking action to stem the flow of revenue that the regime uses to fund these destabilizing activities.”
Iran’s foreign ministry spokesperson said the latest sanctions were “further proof of the American decision-makers’ contradictory behaviour and lack of good faith”.
Media reports in Iran also pointed to Hegseth’s post on X earlier on Thursday, which was reposted by Trump’s Special Envoy to the Middle East Steve Witkoff who has been leading the US delegation.
“Message to IRAN: We see your LETHAL support to the Houthis. We know exactly what you are doing. You will pay the CONSEQUENCE at the time and place of our choosing,” the post read.
The Houthis have declared themselves part of an “axis of resistance” of Iran-affiliated groups against Israel, the US and the wider West -along with armed groups such as Hamas and Lebanon’s Hezbollah movement.
The US has launched several deadly strikes on Houthi targets in recent months in response to the group’s attacks on shipping in the Red Sea, which began in November 2023 in response to Israel’s military campaign in Gaza.
What is Iran’s nuclear programme and what does the US want?
Hopes for Iran nuclear talks tempered by threats and mixed messages
Can Trump convince Iran to ditch its nuclear programme?
Trump has said that he is looking for a solution that would close Iran’s pathways to build a nuclear bomb. But there are those in his administration who are pushing for the complete dismantlement of Iran’s nuclear enrichment programme.
They are also pushing for Iran to stop support for its proxies in the region, including the Houthis.
Iran says its programme is peaceful and that it has a right to enrichment. It is hoping for a deal to limit, but not dismantle, its nuclear programme in exchange for sanctions relief.
After Russia, Iran has been under the most extensive set of sanctions in history – the sanctions that the US has imposed on the country.
President Massoud Pezeshkian has centred Iran’s economic policies on the promise of the lifting these sanctions.
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