Washington:
The United States confirmed on Tuesday that the envoy Steve Witkoff would talk to Iran this weekend and said he would issue demands on Tehran’s nuclear program instead of negotiating.
Witkoff, a friend who has worked as the envoy of President Donald Trump in the Gaza and Ukraine wars, will participate in the conversations on Saturday in Oman, the spokeswoman for the State Department of the State Department Tammy Bruce told reporters.
Establishing a difficult line before the conversations, Bruce said: “On Saturday, there is a meeting. There are no negotiations.”
Trump “is committed to diplomacy,” he added.
“There has been talk of wanting to get to Iran to do this. And now it depends on Iran, and if they do not want, it will be very bad for them,” Bruce said.
The president believes that “making an agreement would be preferable to do the obvious,” he said, in a clear reference to a military attack.
Bruce refused to deepen the US message in Oman, apart from saying that the United States believed that “Iran can never get a nuclear weapon.”
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said he believes that the clerical state can reach an agreement with the United States, his Archionemigo, if Washington shows good will.
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