A senior Iranian official said Monday that a peace proposal was ultimately rejected by the President Donald Trump it was a “reasonable and generous” way to end the war.
Esmail Baghaei, spokesman for Iran’s Foreign Ministry, said during a press conference that “the only thing we have asked for is Iran’s legitimate rights”, accusing the American side of insisting on “unreasonable demands”.
Baghaei’s remarks came after Trump in a social media The Post dismissed the Iranian proposal – a counterpoint to the latest US offer – as “completely unacceptable”.
“I don’t like it,” Trump wrote, without specifying what he found objectionable. The president’s reply was sent oil rising prices.
Trita Parsi, executive vice president of the Quincy Institute for Responsible Government Affairs, has written Late Sunday it appeared that Iran was offering to compromise significantly on its uranium stockpile and future enrichment.
“The US wants all Iranian stockpile shipped out of the country. In the past, Tehran refuse to send any of it abroad; she only agreed to reduce it. In his latest proposal, however, he offers to dilute some of it and send the rest to a third country,” Parsi wrote. “As I understand it … Iran is also offering to accept a deal in which it will not have to enrich uranium at all for 12 years. These are not the 15-20 years that Trump initially wanted, but longer than the 3-5 years that Terhani initially offered.”
“That Iran is willing to stop enrichment altogether is a significant concession that I’m not sure is fully appreciated by the American side,” he continued. “It remains unclear to me why this and reservations have become so central to Trump’s perspective. His previous red line was simply not nuclear weapons… The insistence on sending all reserves appears to be another example of Trump allowing America’s red lines to be replaced by Israel’s. It would be a shame if the whole negotiation fails on this issue.”
The details of the US offer and Iran’s response have not been fully made public, although some of the demands from both sides have been revealed in media reports and vaguely described by government officials. Trump, who has repeatedly issued dire threats against Iran and called the country’s leaders “crazy,” said Axios that he spoke with the Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu for Iran’s reaction.
“It was a very nice call,” Trump said. “We have a good relationship.”
Iranian comments
Iran’s Baghaei, for his part, rejected the notion that Iran is the party behaving irrationally. “Just look at Iran’s record,” he said. “Were we the ones who deployed troops? Were we the ones who bullied countries in the Western Hemisphere? Were we the ones who carried out assassinations twice during the negotiations?”
“Is our proposal for safe passage through the Strait of Hormuz unreasonable?” Baghaei asked in response to the American president. “Is it irresponsible to establish peace and security in the entire region?”
Citing an “informed source”, Iran’s semi-official Tasnim News Agency reported On Monday that “Iran’s text emphasizes the necessity of an immediate end to the war and guarantees against new aggression against Iran, along with several other issues within the framework of a political understanding.”
“Iran’s text also emphasizes the necessity of removing the U.S sanctions and ending the war on all fronts, as well as Iranian management of the Strait of Hormuz if certain commitments are fulfilled by United StatesThe necessity of ending the naval blockade against Iran immediately after the signing of the initial understanding is also among the highlighted demands of Iran, the source said.
