“End Nuclear Insanity Before Nuclear Insanity Ends Humanity” ~llaw
May 19, 2025
Iran’s and U.S.’ flags are seen printed on paper in this illustration taken January 27, 2022. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration
LLAW’s NUCLEAR WORLD NEWS TODAY and the GLOBAL RISKS & CONSEQUENCES TOMORROW
In My Opinion:
The original Iran/USA nuclear agreement was finalized on July 14, 2015, during the Obama administration and was approved by not only the USA, but also with the approval of China, France, Russia, the U.K., and the U.S. – plus Germany) together with the European Union. Trump withdrew and cancelled the agreement in May of 2018 during his 1st term claiming the agreement was too “one-sided” while also imposing new sanctions on Iran. I guess Trump thought he was smarter than the rest of the world and only he knew best. He was dead wrong, and his mistake has come back to haunt him.
Yes, this has proven to be a serous error made by Trump because Iran has increased their enrichment limits that Obama had set. So now Trump is caught, embarrassingly so, as usual, between a rock and a hard place because the old Obama agreement was reasonable and prevented Iran from increasing their nuclear fuel enrichment program above the level that would only allow them to operate their nuclear power plant(s). So Trump, in order to save face, is now demanding — after previously informing his own negotiators that they could continue enrichment to the nuclear power limits set by Obama, but since then Trump has vacillated between some and none, changing his mind, from one week to the next, so that Iran has no idea what Trump’s demands even are. And that makes preparing for an agreement virtually impossible.
I have followed this story from the beginning until now, and in the meantime Trump has lied and misled the U.S. citizenry and even his own cabinet and administration about restricting Iran’s nuclear fuel from being enriched at all, and that Iran is not to possess their own uranium fuel, which Iran says will kill any deal that Trump suggests. Of course Iran would never agree to be forced to shut down their existing nuclear power plants. Go figure! ~llaw
Iran says nuclear talks will fail if US pushes for zero enrichment
By Reuters
May 19, 20252:34 AM PDTUpdated 6 hours ago
Iran’s and U.S.’ flags are seen printed on paper in this illustration taken January 27, 2022. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration
DUBAI, May 19 (Reuters) – Nuclear talks between Iran and the United States “will lead nowhere” if Washington insists that Tehran drop its uranium enrichment activity to zero, Deputy Foreign Minister Majid Takhtravanchi was quoted by state media on Monday as saying.
U.S. special envoy Steve Witkoff reiterated Washington’s stance on Sunday that any new deal between the U.S. and Iran must include an agreement to refrain from enrichment, a possible pathway to developing nuclear bombs. Tehran says its nuclear energy programme has entirely peaceful purposes.
“Our position on enrichment is clear and we have repeatedly stated that it is a national achievement from which we will not back down,” Takhtravanchi said.
During his visit to the Gulf region last week, U.S. President Donald Trump said a deal was very close but that Iran needed to move quickly to resolve the decades-long dispute.
Washington is complicating negotiations by expressing views in public different from what is discussed privately during talks, an Iranian foreign ministry spokesperson said on Monday.
“Despite hearing contradictory statements from the Americans, we are still participating in negotiations,” Esmail Baghaei added.
A fifth round of talks is expected to take place in Rome this weekend pending confirmation, an Iranian official told Reuters.
During his first, 2017-21 term as president, Trump withdrew the United States from a 2015 deal between Iran and world powers that placed strict limits on Tehran’s enrichment activities in exchange for relief from international sanctions.
Trump, who branded the 2015 accord one-sided in Iran’s favour, also reimposed sweeping U.S. sanctions on Iran. The Islamic Republic responded by escalating enrichment.Subscribed
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TODAY’s NUCLEAR WORLD’s NEWS DIGEST, Monday, (05/19/2025)
All Things Nuclear
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Nuclear Power
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Nuclear Power Emergencies
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Nuclear War Threats
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The Economic Times
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Nuclear War
NEWS
Iran says nuclear talks will fail if US pushes for zero enrichment – Reuters
Reuters
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Nuclear veterans hand ‘evidence dossier’ to police – BBC
BBC
He said he witnessed the testing of four hydrogen bombs as part of Britain’s effort to demonstrate its nuclear capabilities during the Cold War.
Another barrier to nuclear war between India and Pakistan has fallen – The Hill
The Hill
India now believes it can respond militarily to Pakistani-backed attacks without triggering full-scale war. That’s quite a wager. But escalation in …
Yellowstone Caldera
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Volcano Rumbling Near Oregon Won’t Harm Idaho and Washington
News Radio 1310 KLIX
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