Washington:
The United States confirmed on Tuesday that envoy Steve Witcoff would talk with Iran later this week and said he would release a demand on Tehran’s nuclear program instead of talks.
Witchoff, a friend, who has worked as a messenger of President Donald Trump in both Gaza and Ukraine wars, will participate in talks on Oman on Saturday, Foreign Department spokesman Tami Bruce told reporters.
Setting a hard line ahead of the talks, Bruce said: “On Saturday, there is a meeting. There is no conversation.”
Trump “committed to diplomacy,” he said.
Bruce said, “He is talking about making a deal with Iran to complete it. And now it is up to Iran – and if they don’t want to do, it would be very bad for them,” Bruce said.
The President believes that “it would be better to clarify a deal,” he said, in a clear context of a military attack.
Bruce refused to deepen the US message in Oman that the United States believed that “Iran could never get nuclear weapons.”
Iranian External Affairs Minister Abbas Araghchi has said that he believes that Washington can reach a deal with the United States, its hardcore-smell, showing goodwill.
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