Trump warns Iran 'time is running out' for nuclear deal
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This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service.
I'm Ankur Desai, and in the early hours of Thursday, the 29th of January, these are our main stories. President Trump threatens Iran again, warning that a massive armada is on the way and time to negotiate a nuclear deal is running out.
What warning did Trump give to Iran regarding their nuclear program?
The US federal agents who killed Alex Preti in Minneapolis are placed on administrative leave. And new estimates of casualty figures in the Ukraine war suggest it's the biggest loss of life in Europe since World War II. Also in this podcast, we hear from people displaced by floods in Mozambique. The water was frightening and we began abandoning our homes and we were not able to recover anything. And scientists say language can help spot early signs of dementia. It's a country going through a period of intense and widespread unrest. And early this month, Donald Trump sent a message to Iranians who were protesting against the regime that help is on its way. The regime's lethal crackdown is reported to have killed more than 6,000 people.
Since then, there have been a slow and steady buildup of U.S. military forces in the Gulf region, and now the U.S. president has warned that time is running out to negotiate a deal on its nuclear program. Ten American warships are now in the region, part of what Mr. Trump described as a massive armada, quickly heading towards Iran with great power, enthusiasm and purpose.
What are the implications of the U.S. military buildup in the Gulf?
Tehran insists its nuclear program is peaceful and has vowed to retaliate if attacked. Our correspondent Lise Doucette is following developments. Time is running out. That is President Trump's stark warning to Iran. What he calls a massive armada is a major build-up of U.S. military might in the Arabian Sea. The USS Abraham Lincoln, a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, has now moved into these strategic waters, bolstered by destroyers, an attack submarine and thousands of sailors. Fighter jets are also at the ready. The only way to avoid another war, declares Trump, is a new nuclear deal. Iran's mission in New York was quick to respond. They were ready for dialogue based on mutual respect and interest.
If not, they said, they would respond like never before. In previous talks, Mr. Trump's team made maximalist demands that Iran's rulers saw as surrender. Today, the U.S. Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, disparaged Tehran's strength.
That regime is probably weaker than it has ever been. And the core problem they face, unlike the protests you saw in the past on some other topics, is that they don't have a way to address the core complaints of the protesters, which is that their economy is in collapse. And the reason why there's economies in collapse is because they spend all their money and all their resources building weapons and sponsoring terrorist groups around the world instead of reinvesting it back into their society.
Mr. Trump has been threatening Iran for many weeks, ever since a wave of unprecedented protests swept across the country and were swiftly crushed with unprecedented lethal force. The U.S. ambassador to Israel, Mike Huckabee, told us what the president wants to see.
What he hopes is not that there is a war, but there is a realization on the part of the Iranians that they need to quit slaughtering their own people who are protesting the fact they don't have water and food.
Details of that slaughter are still emerging. An exact toll still isn't known. But it keeps rising as more information surfaces as the Internet blackout eases. Human rights lawyer Dr Payam Akhavan told the story of one desperate protester.
A young man went to the protests and he didn't return. And his parents then went to the hospital searching for him and eventually ended up in the notorious Kharizak morgue in which countless numbers of black body bags are piled on top of each other like garbage. And they searched through these bodies and miraculously they found their son badly wounded but alive. And he had been pretending to be dead without food and water for almost three days because he realized that if he was alive, he could be killed on the spot.
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