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Is the U.S. close to a nuclear deal with Iran?
President Trump reveals the U.S.
is close to a nuclear deal with Iran. This is a very, very nice step, and there's a violent step. The violence like people haven't seen before. I don't want to do the second step.
What other developments came out of the president's Middle East tour?
I'm Daily Wire executive editor John Bickley with Georgia Howe. It's Friday, May 16th, and this is Morning Wire.
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After months of tense negotiations, President Trump says Iran is on the verge of signing a historic nuclear deal.
Daily Wire senior editor Cabot Phillips is here with more. So Cabot, this has massive implications for the Middle East, but for people who have not been following this story, can you just give some context?
Well, for decades, Iran has been attempting to construct nuclear weapons and the U.S. now considers them a nuclear threshold state. That means they are very close. For obvious reasons, that's of major concern to the West. We're talking about a country whose leaders routinely refer to the U.S. as the great Satan and a government which spends billions of dollars every year funding terror groups, like Hamas, Hezbollah, and the Houthis. Now, over the last four years, President Biden attempted to revive the Obama-era nuclear deal with Iran. He waived sanctions as a show of goodwill, but ultimately, Iranian officials never really came to the table for formal negotiations, and a deal was never reached.
But now, after four rounds of formal talks between the White House and Iran, President Trump says they are now ready to cut a deal.
So this is potentially very fast progress. What do we think this deal is going to look like?
Well, the general idea is that Iran will agree to never produce nuclear weapons in the future in exchange for the lifting of economic sanctions and obviously for peace. A top advisor to the country's supreme leader told NBC that they would commit to never making nuclear weapons.
What developments emerged from Trump's Middle East visit?
They would agree to hand over existing stockpiles of enriched uranium, only enrich uranium to low levels consistent with civilian use, and allow third-party inspectors to supervise their entire nuclear process. In exchange, they want the U.S. to lift all economic sanctions, which really have just hobbled the entire Iranian economy for decades now. President Trump has also said he wants to see them cut funding to those terror groups they support, but it's unclear right now if that part will be included in the final deal. But for Trump, the top line of the deal is clear. Have a listen. It's not like I have to give you 30 pages worth of details.
There's only one sentence, they can't have a nuclear weapon.
Now, there certainly are critics of this agreement. They say there's no way to make sure that Iran will actually hand over all of its nuclear materials. And we just don't know if they'll even allow nuclear inspectors to look at all of their facilities. And it's worth noting, many Republicans do want a deal, but not one that allows Iran to continue enriching any uranium, even low levels for civilian use. To that point, 52 GOP senators and nearly 180 GOP House members signed a letter this week to President Trump saying, quote, the scope and breadth of Iran's nuclear buildout have made it impossible to verify any new deal that allows Iran to continue enriching uranium. So we'll have to see if the White House draws a red line on enrichment or allows those lower levels to take place.
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