A highly trusted source in the White House tells Fox News that it is conceivable Iran will receive sanctions relief if the regime agrees to drop the uranium programme. But getting an answer from Tehran is a weighty matter.
The U.S. may be willing to make “significant accommodations” for Iran on sanctions relief if the nation’s leaders are willing to make a similar accommodations to the U.S. on enriched uranium, a senior administration official told Fox News on Sunday.
The official downplayed reports that the deal could be signed on Sunday, saying Tehran’s system “does not move fast enough.”
“Our plan is to deal with all of their stockpile of the enriched material,” the official said. “We see the Iranians making some serious accommodations on these questions that we didn’t see before.”
“If the Iranians make significant accommodations on the enrichment question then we will make significant accommodations on sanctions relief,” the official continued.
“Even in the IRGC’s own propaganda, they did not talk about tolling the Strait of Hormuz. Our position is quite clear. We don’t think that a toll is an acceptable outcome,” the official added.
Trump cannot accept an agreement that allows Iran to retain its nuclear programme. Then the war will have been in vain, and a split with Israel will arise. Nor will the neighbouring countries like such an outcome, which could trigger a nuclear arms race.
But NRK reports that matters may be heading towards compromise. Who benefits from that? asks the studio. – Analysts in the Middle East say that Iran will emerge as the victor, replies correspondent Ada Khorami. What, then, was the purpose of the war? asks the studio. – That is the question many are asking, Khorami replies.
Trump has thus started a war he could not win, and it is Iran that holds the cards. But is this a description of reality, or is it an expression of wishful thinking at Marienlyst (the HQ of Norway’s state broadcaster NRK)?