Trump returned text of Iran deal with changes

Summary President Donald Trump returned changes to a proposed Iran deal after meeting with his advisers, officials said, extending negotiations for another week. Officials said Trump pushed for tougher language on Iran’s nuclear commitments and reopening the Strait of Hormuz. Discrepancies remain between what Trump says publicly and what Iran believes should be included in any deal.

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President Donald Trump returned changes to the proposed Iran deal after a meeting with his advisers Friday, officials said, extending negotiations for another week.

The exact changes Trump requested were not immediately clear, but officials said the president insisted on tougher language regarding Iran’s nuclear commitments and its promise to reopen the Strait of Hormuz. US allies in the Gulf have been informed of the discussions. A foreign official familiar with the matter told CNN that the changes are not substantive and primarily focus on the United States’ desire for assurances on these issues.

Trump also expressed concern about the financial aid that could be provided to Iran under the deal, wary of comparisons to the “pallets of money” delivered under the Obama-era nuclear deal that he called weak.

A US official told CNN that further military strikes were unlikely once the deal was reached, and that regional allies do not want combat operations to resume.

The latest wave of proposed changes comes a week after Trump declared the deal “largely finalized” and signaled that the end of the war was imminent.

Since then, U.S. officials have announced progress toward reaching a deal that would end hostilities, reopen the strait and begin more detailed negotiations on Iran’s nuclear program.

Yet even after Trump announced he would make a “final decision” at Friday’s meeting and spelled out some of the deal’s terms on social media, the two-hour session ended without a conclusive decision.

While Trump asserted in his message that the United States would seize and destroy Iran’s stockpiles of highly enriched uranium, Iran has consistently said it does not discuss the details of its nuclear program in ongoing negotiations.

Trump also claimed there was no discussion of exchanging money as part of the deal, a condition that Iran says must be included in any deal.

How these differences will be resolved remains unclear as haggling over the deal’s language progresses.

Axios and The New York Times earlier reported Trump’s demand for change.

Iranian Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf said on Sunday that no deal would be approved with the United States until Tehran’s “rights” were guaranteed, according to the semi-official Tasnim news agency.

“Soldiers on the diplomatic battlefield have no trust in the words and promises of the enemy. What matters to us are the tangible achievements that we must obtain, in exchange for which we will fulfill our commitments,” Tasnim quoted Ghalibaf as saying.

Delaware Sen. Chris Coons said Sunday morning that the conditions Trump laid out last week for a deal seemed acceptable on paper, but expressed skepticism about its feasibility in practice, particularly regarding the Strait of Hormuz.

“While we can use our technological superiority to bomb large factories in Iran, we will not be able to prevent them from having the power to use their mines to close the Strait of Hormuz and their drones to attack us and our allies,” Coons, a Democrat who sits on the Senate Foreign Affairs Committee, said on “Fox News Sunday.” “We’re going to need a tough deal to really address this new capability that Iran has demonstrated in this war.”

In response to Iran’s stranglehold on the strait, a critical passage for global energy trade, Trump ordered the U.S. Navy to blockade the country’s ports and clear the strait of Iranian mines.

The blockade continued amid negotiations, with the U.S. military neutralizing a Gambian-flagged ship heading to Iran on Friday by firing a missile at its engine room, according to U.S. Central Command.

CENTCOM said in a statement posted on social media on Saturday that the M/V Lian Star was en route to an Iranian port in the Gulf of Oman when the US military issued “more than 20 warnings” that it was violating the US blockade of Iranian ports.

This is the fifth commercial ship neutralized by the US military since the start of the blockade, CENTCOM said. More than 100 ships have also been redirected.

This story has been updated with additional details.

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