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27 August, 2019
By SJA Jafri + Agencies
MELBOURNE/ WASHINGTON/ TEHRAN: If the circumstance remain same or the situation betters a little bid in Strait of Hormuz, the American President may visit Iran in near future and if the situation is not changed, struggle for Trump’s visit to Iran will be continued by some ‘unseeing powers’ because of their own interest while not only the US President himself but also a most influential ‘US think tanks’ European Union (EU), G7, G22 even the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA),the united Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Qatar and Pakistan want to cool down the present condition as of effective Iranian national and global policies, its most powerful and valuable commercial, logistic, defence and spying developments and technologies, and if the American particularly the Whitehouse Administration are not changed their attitude and behavior, not only the US will remain alone in the world but also the entire Arab, Central Asian countries and Pakistan will leave America in their individual and collective interests hence, the Russia as well as China may take the place of America in Gulf as both have been struggling and planning in continuation of present scenario of the region and also a hidden message has also been forwarded to Trump during the G7 summit yesterday, sources claimed.
According to BBC the President Donald Trump says he is open to meeting Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani under the right circumstances.
It comes after Iran’s foreign minister made a brief and unannounced visit to the G7 summit in France on Sunday.
Relations between Iran and the US have deteriorated since Washington withdrew last year from a 2015 deal to limit Iran’s nuclear activities.
However, on Monday, Trump said he had “good feelings” about the prospect of a new nuclear deal with Iran.
“Iran is not the same country it was two and a half years ago when I came into office,” he told reporters at a joint G7 press conference with French leader Emmanuel Macron.
“I really believe that Iran can be a great nation… but they can’t have nuclear weapons,” he said, adding that they had to be “good players” before he would agree to a meeting.
Earlier on Monday, Rouhani said he was ready to meet anyone if he felt it would benefit Iran.
“If I am sure that attending a session or having a meeting with someone will help develop my country and resolve the people’s problems, I will not hesitate to do so,” he said.
Trump’s remarks came at the close of the G7 summit – where leaders from Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the UK and the US – met in Biarritz.
Other issues they discussed included world trade, fires in the Amazon, and developments in Ukraine, Libya and Hong Kong.
How did we get here?
Tensions with Iran have been heightened since the US unilaterally withdrew from the 2015 nuclear deal, and re-imposed sanctions.
Other parties to the agreement – the UK, France, Germany, Russia and China – have sought to salvage the nuclear deal.
On Sunday, Iranian Foreign Minister Muhammad Javed Zarif said he had “constructive” talks with his French counterpart and Macron, on the sidelines of the G7 talks in Biarritz.
Macron, who has taken an active role to try to save the accord, said he had informed Trump of his plan to invite Zarif, after discussions with Iranian officials on possible solutions.
He said he believed the “conditions for a meeting” between Trump and Rouhani “in the next few weeks” had been established.
“Nothing is set yet and things are still fragile, but Rouhani that “if he accepts a meeting with President Trump, I am convinced an agreement can be found”.
What would a new deal actually look like?
The 2015 agreement involved Iran limiting its nuclear activities for between 10 and 15 years, in return for sanctions relief.
The deal restricted Iran’s enrichment of uranium and required it to allow international inspections. The accord also stipulated that Iran should redesign a heavy-water reactor being built so that it could not produce any weapons-grade plutonium.
The US withdrew from the deal in May 2018, and issued a list of 12 “requirements” for a new nuclear deal and the lifting of US sanctions. These included Iran curbing its ballistic missile program, and ending its involvement in regional conflicts.
Iran has described the requirements as unacceptable.
At Monday’s press conference, Trump said that for any new deal, he was “looking for no nuclear weapons, no ballistic missiles and a longer period of time”.
It is not clear whether Iran would accept any new conditions – Iran’s state-run Press TV, quoting unnamed sources, said that Iran had rejected talks about its missile program, as “non-negotiable”.
Meanwhile, Macron said that “we need to be sure Iran will never get nuclear weapons”, but he recognized the Iranians would also want “economic compensation of some form” to convince them to agree to additional security demands.
Trump also appeared to be open to this, as he said talks were already under way for other countries to potentially provide Iran with credit, secured by oil, to keep its economy afloat.
The US would not be paying, but there was the possibility of “a letter of credit… from numerous countries”, he said.
