SAEDNEWS: The US Vice President claimed that a complete agreement with Iran has not yet been reached, but said the two sides are now very close to achieving one.
According to Saed News political desk, U.S. Vice President J.D. Vance stated that while Washington and Tehran have not yet reached a final agreement, they are very close to doing so.
Speaking to Lebanese media outlet Al-Nashra, Vance reiterated the U.S. position, claiming that the United States is in a position to inflict significant damage on Iran’s nuclear program.
A day earlier, the U.S. vice president expressed optimism that Iran could commit, through an agreement, not to develop nuclear weapons.
Despite the fact that President Donald Trump withdrew the United States from the 2015 nuclear agreement in 2018—a deal that had subjected Iran’s nuclear activities to some of the strictest monitoring and verification measures by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)—Vance said that Washington seeks more than a pledge from Iran not to build nuclear weapons.
“Our goal is not only a commitment to refrain from acquiring nuclear weapons, but also a commitment to cooperate with us in a process that ensures Iran cannot rebuild this nuclear capability, not only now but even years after the Trump administration. That is what we hope to achieve through the ongoing negotiations,” he said.
Iranian officials have consistently maintained that the production and use of nuclear weapons have no place in the country’s defense doctrine and that Iran’s nuclear program is solely intended for peaceful purposes. Tehran has also rejected calls from the Trump administration to dismantle its uranium enrichment activities, arguing that, as a signatory to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), it has the legal right to enrich uranium for peaceful purposes.
Since the beginning of Trump’s second term, administration officials have sought to portray any level of uranium enrichment as a step toward nuclear weapons development, despite Iran’s repeated assertions that it has no intention of producing nuclear arms while continuing to insist on its rights under the NPT.
