Siavash Adlan
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Trump threatens to escalate trade war with China
This was an absolute bombshell news that could have easily been missed by anyone who was watching this lengthy press conference by Donald Trump when he made reference to his policy on Iran when asked by a reporter where the U.S. stands at present. What we had heard from the Iranian authorities up until this very moment was that they had requested indirect talks with the U.S.
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Trump threatens to escalate trade war with China
and just today the Iranian foreign minister had said that The ball is in the U.S. 's court in terms of responding to this proposal by Iran. But now this is the American president coming out and saying that not only does the U.S. agree with these kinds of talks with Iran, but the talks are direct and at a very high level.
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Trump threatens to escalate trade war with China
We don't know who is involved in these talks, but he said these talks had been going on and there's another one scheduled to take place on Saturday. For Iranians, I just cannot overstate how important of a news this can be.
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Trump threatens to escalate trade war with China
For the brief moment that Prime Minister Netanyahu did get to speak on Iran, he said that what he had proposed to the American president and what he is bringing to the table is, in his words, a diplomatic resolution to the Iranian nuclear program along the lines of Libya. which, as we remember, involved a complete dismantling of the Libyan nuclear program.
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Trump threatens to escalate trade war with China
There was speculation before this that this is what the Israelis would be asking for in their talks with the U.S., but Prime Minister Netanyahu confirmed that.
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Trump threatens to escalate trade war with China
Option one, they can deny this. They can say that President Trump is not telling the truth.
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Trump threatens to escalate trade war with China
Option number two, they can say, OK, there may be talks, but the foreign ministry does not know anything about this, which means that maybe representatives of the Supreme Leader, people higher in the echelons of power other than the foreign ministry, are involved in these talks, similar to a few years ago when Iran and the U.S. had secret talks in Oman. which led to the nuclear deal of 2015.
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Trump threatens to escalate trade war with China
And the third option is that they could say, yes, well, we wanted everything to be carried out in secret so we could find out whether we can reach an agreement or not. And what President Trump has done was not something that we had agreed on.