Moscow offers to host Tehran’s uranium stocks, but the US president holds back: “We will take them to destroy them.” All the backstory.
The diplomatic process seems to have started again between United States And Iran. Yesterday, the head of the Pakistani armed forces, Asim Munirwas expected to Tehran. According to the Turkish news agency Anadolu, his goal would be to broker a “temporary” agreement between the two belligerents: an agreement that should allow the resumption of talks on key issues, such as Hormuz and Iranian nuclear power.
Let’s not forget that, the day before yesterday, he was the Interior Minister of Islamabad, Mohsin Naqvito visit the Iranian capital, to meet the commander of the Pasdaran, Ahmad Vahidi. Not only that. Tomorrow, the Prime Minister of Pakistan, Shehbaz Sharifwill go to China where he will see Xi Jinping.
Pakistan brokers temporary nuclear deal
For its part, the Iranian Foreign Ministry has announced that Tehran he would be examining the “points of view” of Americans. At the same time, again yesterday, the American Secretary of State, Marco Rubiocautiously spoke of “positive signals” in the diplomatic process, confirming the trip of the Pakistani delegation to the Islamic Republic and expressing disappointment with the behavior of the NATO allies. However, the US Secretary of State, probably to put pressure on the ayatollahs, has not ruled out resorting to the military option. “The president’s preference is to get a good deal, that’s his preference,” he said, then added: “But if we can’t get a good deal, the president has been clear: he has other options. I won’t go into detail, but everyone knows them.”
However, there is no shortage of difficulties. Sources in the Islamic Republic reported that the Iranian Supreme Leader, Mojtaba Khameneiwould have prohibited the transfer abroad of uranium that is about to be used for the production of armaments. An indiscretion, the latter, which was denied by both White House and by a high-ranking official in Tehran.
Moreover, if it were confirmed, the news would risk putting the diplomatic process in serious difficulty: Donald Trump he famously hopes that the Khomeini regime will sell its stockpile of highly enriched uranium. Stocks that, during his recent meeting with Xi in Beijing, Vladimir Putinaccording to Interfax, would have offered to host on Russian territory. It is a proposal, that of the Tsar, towards which the White House is nevertheless cold. Yesterday, the American president once again reiterated that Iran cannot keep its highly enriched uranium and that the United States will take possession of it. «Once we have it, we will destroy it. We don’t want that,” said Trump, who also said the conflict would end “very soon.”
The taxes on Hormuz and the issue of military security
All this, without forgetting the Hormuz node. Yesterday, the Islamic Republic made it known that Tehran is discussing with theOman the introduction of a permanent toll for those who want to use the Strait: an idea that was harshly rejected by the American president and by Rubio himself, according to whom the introduction of taxes would make any agreement between Washington and Tehran impossible.
On the other hand, Centcom announced that it had “redirected” 94 ships since Washington imposed a blockade on the ports of the Islamic Republic. Furthermore, according to the CNNUS intelligence believes that Tehran is rebuilding its military capabilities more rapidly than expected and that, following the ceasefire with Washington, it has restarted drone production. In short, diplomacy has restarted. But the road is not downhill yet.
