Iran is continuing to reject any attempt by the US to negotiate a closure to their nuclear program. Even after President Trump extended a two-week deadline for negotiations, Iran has once again rejected it, saying they will not negotiate as long as Israel continues bombing them.
Here’s more from the New York Post:
Iran said Friday it would refuse to hold nuclear talks with the US while it was still under attack from Israel after President Trump essentially gave a two-week deadline to allow for renewed negotiations.
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi vowed there was no room for negotiations with the United States “until Israeli aggression stops.”
“Americans want to negotiate and have sent messages several times, but we clearly said that as long as this aggression doesn’t stop, there’s no place for talk of dialogue,” he said in an address on state television.
He accused the US, too, of being a “partner to Israeli crime against Iran.”
Retired four-star Gen. Jack Keane warned Friday that he doesn’t believe Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, will ever agree to no more uranium enrichment.
“The Ayatollah going into this, and the reason why he has never made a deal, is because he had built an enterprise to survive an attack — and he believes they can absorb the attack, survive it, recover it, and then rebuild,” Gen. Keane said in an interview on “Fox & Friends.”
“That is where this guy is. And I don’t see him, in the near term, making the deal here whatsoever,” he added.
Well, that really should settle it. Let’s get on with the decision to either bomb Fordow or not. Or let’s just sell Israel one of our b-2 bombers and enough MOPs to do the job. Either way, it’s about time for a decision from Trump. The Iranian’s clearly are not going to negotiate.