Trump says he had ‘very good talks’ with Iran as Tehran reviews US proposals | US-Israel War on Iran News

The President of the United States, Donald Trump, says that he had “very good talks” with Iran in the last 24 hours and that “it is possible for us to reach an agreement”, while Tehran is reviewing the US peace plan that sources said would end the conflict.

Shows the progress of an ongoing conversation between two sidesMr Trump on Wednesday said Iran must halt its nuclear program and reopen the Strait of Hormuz, threatening to resume bombing if talks fail.

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“Look, this is very simple. Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon because as strong as they are, we want to live. We want all of you to live,” he told reporters at the White House.

In an interview with US broadcaster PBS, Mr Trump said he was hopeful of reaching an agreement with Iran before traveling to China next week.

“I think this has a very good chance of ending, and if it doesn’t, we’re going to have to go back and blow the hell up,” he said.

Meanwhile, the spokesman for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Iran, Esmaeil Baghaei, denied the alleged reports agreement with the US they were close, calling them exaggerations.

He added that Tehran has not responded to the recent US proposal, but continues to exchange diplomatic messages through the intermediary of Pakistan.

Trump has repeatedly played up the prospect of a deal that would end the US-Israel war on Iran that began on February 28, so far without success. The two sides are still at odds over various issues, such as Iran’s nuclear ambitions and its control of the Strait of Hormuz, which before the war held a fifth of the world’s oil and gas.

A Pakistani source and another source briefed on the mediation told Reuters that an agreement was close on a one-page memorandum that would end the dispute. That could lead to negotiations to end the shipping blockade, raise US sanctions on Iran, and implement measures to curb Iran’s nuclear program, sources told the agency.

It is not clear how the memorandum differs from a 14 point plan which was issued by Iran last week.

Iran’s semiofficial Tasnim news agency, citing an unnamed source, said the US proposal contained some unacceptable elements, without specifying which ones.

Lawmaker Ebrahim Rezaei, spokesman for the Iranian Parliament’s Foreign Affairs and National Security Committee, described the statement as “a list of American interests rather than reality”.

“The American people have nothing to gain from the war they are losing that they did not gain from face-to-face negotiations,” he wrote on television.

US State Department spokesman Tommy Pigott told Al Jazeera that Trump remained “closely monitoring” the short-term disruption caused by Iran’s closure of the Strait of Hormuz, but that Washington “cannot” make the world able to determine who is allowed to use the international waterway”.

“I don’t foresee or predict what the president will decide in the future, but the president has been clear from the beginning that he wants a negotiated solution…

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he would speak with Trump on Wednesday about ongoing talks with Iran, adding that they both agreed that all enriched uranium must be removed from Iran to prevent it from developing a nuclear bomb.

Iran has steadfastly refused to give up enriched uranium, which it says does not make a nuclear weapon.

Meanwhile, the US military operating in the Gulf of Oman has stopped an Iranian-flagged oil tanker because it failed to heed warnings, the US Central Command (CENTCOM) announced.

CENTCOM said in a statement that the vessel – known as the M/T Hasna – was spotted passing through international waters en route to an Iranian port in the Gulf of Oman at around 14:00 GMT on Wednesday.

The US military issued “several warnings” to the tanker, informing its crew that the ship was breaching the blockade, he said. The US blockade against ships trying to enter or leave Iranian ports remains “adequate”, it said.

Trump late Tuesday he announced slowly in “Project Freedom”, the US military to guide the stranded merchant ships through the Strait of Hormuz – after just one day – citing the possibility of sealing an agreement to end the war.

Mr Trump wrote on social media that the surprising decision to suspend the project came after he asked for “mediation by Pakistan and other countries”, saying that “Great progress has been made towards a Full and Final deal” with Tehran.