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On Monday journalist Tucker Carlson released an interview he conducted with Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian. During the interview, Tehran’s head of state said that the Islamic Republic has “no problem” with future nuclear negotiations with Washington. Notably, President Donald Trump’s administration has previously engaged in talks with Tehran in hopes of signing a new nuclear deal, although these meetings were ended after Israel launched a military attack against Iran.
“We see no problem in reentering the negotiations,” Pezeshkian said. “There is a condition … for restarting the talks. How are we going to trust the United States again?”
Masoud Pezeshkian, president of Iran.
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On Thursday it was reported that White House envoy Steve Witkoff is planning to meet Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi for these negotiations this week, according to “sources familiar with the discussions”. While neither side initially confirmed this report, Pezeshkian’s statements to Tucker appears to have done so.
“The sources said a final date hasn’t been set, and neither country has publicly confirmed the meeting,” Axios said Thursday. “But if it happens, it would mark the first direct talks since President Trump ordered an unprecedented military strike on Iran’s nuclear facilities last month.”
Trump’s withdrawal from the 2015 nuclear deal stemmed from numerous issues with the deal’s details. Notably, it involved President Barack Obama shipping $400 million in cash on pallets to Tehran.
On Monday evening Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is expected to have a meeting with President Trump at the White House. Trump is seeking a “permanent deal” between Israel and Iran and said that the U.S. is “working on a lot of things” with Israel.
“Netanyahu said he would personally thank President Trump for his role in last month’s strikes against Iran’s nuclear facilities, but also cautioned that Iran must not be allowed to continue enriching Uranium, something its leaders have vowed to do,” Raw Egg Nationalist reported on Infowars Monday. “Netanyahu also told reporters Israel had three goals that would be necessary to bring the war in Gaza, which began in October 2023, to an end. He said all Israeli hostages must be released, Hamas’s military capabilities must be destroyed, and Gaza must never be allowed to become a threat to Israel again.”
While Washington and Tehran are set to continue their negotiations, another diplomatic pursuit in the region has hit a roadblock.
“The first round of indirect peace talks between Israel and Hamas in Qatar have ended without a deal,” Raw Egg Nationalist said on Infowars Monday. “According to Palestinian sources, the Israeli delegation were not authorized to reach an agreement with their Hamas counterparts.”
In a similar way to how Trump’s administration brokered negotiations between Ukraine and Russia, it now appears the White House is working to do the same between Iran, Israel and Gaza.
If Trump is following a similar game plan as the one he used in Eastern Europe, then Washington is only looking to set the groundwork for peace deals between warring nations while allowing the parties involved to decide on specific details of the agreements. Through this process Washington can take a step back from the role of ‘global policeman’ yet not be accused of being ‘isolationist’.
Notably, ‘isolationism’ is a deeply historic American political ideology.
“Beginning with George Washington’s presidency, the United States sought a policy of isolationism and neutrality with regards to the internal affairs of other nations. Early American political leaders argued that with the exception of free trade, self-defense and humanitarian emergencies, the U.S. would do best to avoid permanent alliances that do not serve American interests but instead deflect attention from domestic issues,” Norwich University said.
