US President Donald Trump said on Thursday that the United States is very close to signing a nuclear deal with Iran. Trump added that Tehran has also agreed to most of his terms.
“We’re in very serious negotiations with Iran for long-term peace,” Trump said on a tour of the Gulf, according to a shared pool report by AFP.
“We’re getting close to maybe doing a deal without having to do this … there [are] two steps to doing this, there is a very, very nice step and there is the violent step, but I don’t want to do it the second way,” he said.
However, there are still many gaps in the talks with the United States of America. Though both Iran and the United States have agreed to resolve the conflict through dialogue. The latest round of talks between Iran and the US ended in Oman on Sunday.
While the negotiations continued, Iran publicly announced that continue the enrichment of Uranium. Tehran and Washington are divided on several issues, before they can reach the nuclear deal.
Iran’s president reacted to Trump’s comments on Tuesday, calling Tehran the “most destructive force” in the Middle East.
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“Trump thinks he can sanction and threaten us and then talk of human rights. All the crimes and regional instability are caused by them (the United States),” Masoud Pezeshkian said.
“He wants to create instability inside Iran.”
US had objected to the enrichment of Uranium by Iran; objection rejected by Iran, which called it their right to enrich Uranium on Iranian soil. However, they have agreed to reduce the level of enrichment.
The Iranian source said that while Iran is prepared to offer what it considers concessions, the “issue is that America is not willing to lift major sanctions in exchange”.
Sanction have severely impacted the Iranian economy. Tehran agreed to remove the Uranium in stage, to which, US did not agree. US also objected to where the destination to which the highly enriched uranium would be sent.