Israel lays out conditions for any Iran nuclear deal
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This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service. I'm Pete Ross and in the early hours of Monday the 16th of February, these are our main stories. An Iranian minister tells the BBC the ball is in America's court if it wants to reach a nuclear deal. Israel carries out more deadly airstrikes in Gaza while the US pushes ahead with its peace plan. And the alleged gunman of the Bondi Beach shooting in Australia appears via video link at a court for the first time. Also in this podcast, the FBI finds a glove in the Nancy Guthrie disappearance case and... the sound of a successful forest recovery programme. Over the years, the Swiss city of Geneva has hosted many important diplomatic meetings.
And it will do so once again on Tuesday when the US Special Envoy Steve Witkoff meets Iran's Foreign Minister Abbas Arachi for the second round of indirect talks focusing on Iran's nuclear programme. Many leaders in the Middle East will be watching closely, including Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Earlier, he laid out his demands for any future deal between Tehran and Washington.
The first is... that all enriched material has to leave Iran. The second is that there shall be no enrichment capability. Dismantle the equipment and the infrastructure that allows you to enrich in the first place. And the third is to deal also with the questions of ballistic missiles.
The talks come at a difficult time for the Islamic Republic. International sanctions continue to hurt the country's economy and tensions remain high following the regime's bloody suppression of pro-democracy demonstrations in which thousands of people were killed. President Trump has threatened strikes against Iran if a deal to curb its nuclear programme cannot be reached. But Iran's deputy foreign minister said his government was open to compromise if the Americans were willing to lift sanctions. Majid Taghravanchi was speaking to our correspondent Lise Doucette, who's in the Iranian capital. Tehran, a city without certainty. No one's sure what the next days will bring. For people who've lived through the worst.
Last year's war with Israel and America. Last month's uprising put down with lethal force. A place buffeted by so many worries. Even its markets, beautiful to behold, are now a measure of a nation suffering. Iran's cost of living crisis is on another scale. Yunus, the spice seller, tells us some prices have doubled.
Others quadrupled. It's sanctions, he says.
Iran's real currency is in free fall against the dollar. There's a direct link between the prices in this market and the success of the negotiations far away. If Iran doesn't do a deal with the United States, none of the sanctions will be lifted. And if they're not, the government has few tools to fix the economic crisis, much less all the other demands from their people. One of Iran's top negotiators tells us, in this week's talks, they're ready to compromise if sanctions are lifted. We are ready to discuss this and other issues related to our program, provided that they are ready also to talk about the sanctions. Those sanctions have to be also on the table. One cannot accept the notion that Iran has to do certain things without the other side committing itself to do their share.
President Trump prefers a deal, but he said it's hard to get, very hard to get a deal with Iran. He says it's up to you.
No, the ball is in America's court.
Across Tehran, the scars were anger boiled over in last month's nationwide protests. A tax building in tatters, a symbol of a system. This was Vanak Square on a night it burned with rage and slogans calling for change. There's little trace of what happened here. The police post was quickly repaired.
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