US President Donald Trump has announced that Iran will have “no enrichment of uranium,” a condition Tehran has previously refused to accept.
Trump, speaking on his Truth Social platform on Wednesday, April 8, said that many aspects of a 15-point plan have already been agreed upon, adding that the US will work closely with Iran to “dig up and remove” buried nuclear material in the country.
Trump Says Iran Will Stop Uranium Enrichment
The US President said Iran has undergone what he described as a productive regime change and that the US will discuss tariffs and sanctions relief with Tehran after accepting a 10-point proposal.
“The United States will work closely with Iran, which we have determined has gone through what will be a very productive Regime Change! There will be no enrichment of Uranium, and the United States will, working with Iran, dig up and remove all of the deeply buried (B-2 Bombers) Nuclear “Dust,” he said.
He claimed that, under satellite surveillance, nothing has been altered since the attack.
Currently, Iran is believed to have about 440 kilograms (970 pounds) of uranium enriched to 60 percent – the level at which it becomes much faster to get to the 90 percent threshold needed to produce a nuclear weapon.
That amount is enough, theoretically, to produce more than 10 nuclear warheads, according to International Atomic Energy Agency chief Rafael Grossi as quoted by Al Jazeera.
Trump said Iran has undergone what he described as a productive regime change and that the US will discuss tariffs and sanctions relief with Tehran after accepting a 10-point proposal.
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Trump Agrees to 2-Week Ceasefire with Iran
This comes after the US president earlier announced that he agreed “to suspend the bombing and attack of Iran for a period of two weeks.”
The announcement of the agreement came less than two hours before a deadline Trump set for Iran to reopen the Strait of Hormuz and accept terms, or else face what he described as the destruction of “a whole civilization.”
According to the president, “the reason for doing so is that we have already met and exceeded all Military objectives, and are very far along with a definitive agreement concerning long-term peace with Iran, and peace in the Middle East.”
Following the agreement, Iran stated it would coordinate the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz and that its “victory in the field would also be consolidated” during upcoming talks.
Iran says upcoming talks in Pakistan’s Islamabad on Friday do not mean that the end of the war is guaranteed.
While both sides claim a deal as a victory, Israel says it is continuing ground operations in Lebanon.
Since the ceasefire was announced, there have been reports of attacks continuing in the UAE, Kuwait, and at an oil refinery in southern Iran.
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U.S. Vice President JD Vance has acknowledged that the Iran ceasefire remained a “fragile truce”, as he sought to dispute Iran’s declared victory in the war.
Speaking in the Hungarian capital city of Budapest, Vance said some Iranians “are basically lying about what we have accomplished militarily” and “about the nature of the agreement”.
“If the Iranians are willing, in good faith, to work with us, I think we can make an agreement; if they’re going to lie, if they’re going to cheat, if they’re going to try to prevent even the fragile truce that we’ve set up from taking place, then they’re not going to be happy,” he said.
