Mar 22, 2025 01:36 PM IST
Steve Witkoff stated Trump’s latest letter to the Islamist authorities had not been supposed as a menace.
Donald Trump’s Center East envoy Steve Witkoff stated the US president was making an attempt to go off armed battle with Iran by constructing belief with Tehran in remarks broadcast Friday.
In an interview with on-line information anchor Tucker Carlson revealed on X, Witkoff stated Trump’s latest letter to the Islamist authorities had not been supposed as a menace.
The US and Iran are longtime foes and relations are at a brand new low after new Israeli strikes towards targets in Gaza and threats to transport from Yemen’s Iran-backed Huthi rebels.
Trump has written letter to Ayatollah Ali Khamenei
On March 7, Trump stated he had written to Iran’s supreme chief the Ayatollah Ali Khamenei urging a resumption of negotiations concerning the Iranian nuclear programme.
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He additionally warned of potential army motion and Khamenei, in a televised speech on Friday stated: “The People ought to know threats will get them nowhere when confronting Iran.”
However Witkoff, defending Trump’s outreach, advised Carlson that Trump has the army higher hand and it might be extra pure for the Iranians to push for a diplomatic resolution.
“As a substitute, it is him doing that,” he stated of the letter.
“It roughly stated: ‘I am a president of peace. That is what I need. There is not any motive for us to do that militarily. We must always speak,'” Witkoff stated.
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“We must always create a verification program in order that no person worries about weaponization of your nuclear materials… as a result of the choice is just not an excellent various.”
Witkoff stated that US discussions with Iran proceed via “again channels, via a number of international locations and a number of conduits.”
Trump, he stated, is “open to a possibility to wash all of it up with Iran, the place they arrive again to the world and be a fantastic nation as soon as once more… He desires to construct belief with them.”
