Hawzah News Agency- International Service: When US President Donald Trump announced last summer that US military forces had carried out airstrikes against Iranian nuclear facilities, he claimed that the purpose of the operation was nothing more than to stop the threat of Iran acquiring nuclear weapons.
The Trump administration’s negotiating positions have now gone beyond the nuclear issue and include banning Iran from enriching uranium, giving up its stockpile of enriched uranium, as well as imposing limits on the range and number of ballistic missiles and cutting ties with resistance movements.
Iran has repeatedly stated that as a member of the NPT, it has the right to peaceful nuclear energy. Tehran has also emphasized that it will not negotiate on defense issues. Iran has also stressed that it has always adhered to diplomacy and that it was the United States that betrayed diplomacy by giving the green light to the Zionist regime in the middle of negotiations.
A US official said that Trump and senior officials in his administration are well aware that any operation in Iran would be far more difficult than the US action in Venezuela. The difficulty and risk for US forces would be much higher, and Iran is a much more capable adversary than Venezuela. For this reason, Trump is still weighing the range of options.
Source: AVA PRESS
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