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Iran Expresses Lack of Trust in U.S. as Trump Tightens Peace Terms

Iran Expresses Lack of Trust in U.S. as Trump Tightens Peace Terms

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Iran’s chief negotiator cautioned that the United States cannot be trusted, stating that Tehran will not accept any agreement with Washington unless it fully protects Iranian rights. Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf made these remarks amid reports that President Donald Trump had returned a more stringent peace proposal to Iran.

Donald Trump
Republican Party
1. Slowly but surely we're getting, I think, what we want and if we don't get what we want, we're going to end in a different way.
2. The one guarantee that I have to have is that there will be no nuclear weapons. They've agreed to that, and it was very interesting.
3. Our objective is to defend the American people by eliminating imminent threats from the Iranian regime.
4. We've essentially defeated their military. I would rather get a deal because we can open the strait immediately upon signing. The one guarantee that I have is that there will be no nuclear weapons. They've agreed to that.
5. We are making a great deal; otherwise we'll just go back and finish it off militarily. We're close to a very good deal, and if we can make it good, otherwise we just start up with the Department of War.
Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf
Iranian National Security Council
1. We will not approve any agreement until we are certain that the rights of the Iranian people have been upheld.
2. There is no trust in the ⁠enemy's words and ⁠promises. Our only criterion is to achieve tangible results ⁠before we fulfill our ⁠commitments in ⁠return.
Abbas Araqchi
Iranian Foreign Ministry
1. The Iranian minister of foreign affairs... indicated that arriving at a final agreement depended on ending the American party's attitude based on excessive demands and shifting and contradictory positions.
Robert Kagan
Brookings Institution
1. A major strategic setback for the United States need not affect Wall Street.
2. The financial markets may stabilize if it is clear that oil will eventually start flowing again through a reopened strait, even if under the new Iran-controlled system.
Sina Toossi
Center for International Policy
1. Then we see that he ultimately acceded to a ceasefire. We know from all the reporting coming out since that Iran's military capabilities were not reduced as much as the White House presented – something like potentially 70% of their ballistic missiles, 70-80% of the drones are intact.
2. Trump launched this war with these maximalist aims, very publicly stated, regime change, wanting an uprising, saying he got regime change, saying he wants to destroy their nuclear program, destroy their missile capability, their regional allies, or so-called proxies.

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