President Donald Trump delivers remarks on a partnership deal with U.S. Steel and Nippon Steel at the U.S. Steel Corporation-Irvin Works in West Mifflin, Pennsylvania, Friday, May 30, 2025. (Official White House Photo by Daniel Torok)
Could the Trump administration be nearing a nuclear deal with Iran? Charlie Gammell suggests that this could be the case in The Spectator, writing:
To enrich or not enrich? This seems to have been the question dividing Iranian and American negotiators, and there are swelling choruses in Tehran and Washington who hold strong views on the matter. In a report leaked to Axios, it appears that during the last round of talks, the US gave Iran a proposal that would allow limited low-level uranium enrichment for a specified period. The proposal suggested that Iran would be forbidden from building new enrichment facilities and must dismantle “critical infrastructure for conversion and processing of uranium,” adding that research and development on centrifuges would also have to stop. Sanctions relief will only come once Iran is demonstrably adhering to the terms of the deal and has clearly paused its underground enrichment activities.
This is quite the climbdown from Washington’s earlier maximalist demands of a total dismantling of Iran’s nuclear program, a dismantling that would encompass civil and “non-civil” nuclear programs. Trump perhaps alluded to this in his comments last week that the potential deal “is very strong, where we can go in with inspectors. We can take whatever we want. We can blow up whatever we want. But nobody getting killed.”
The implication here was clear: the US is willing to accept Tehran developing domestic enrichment capabilities for civilian purposes in exchange for US inspection rights and a chance to sign an agreement.
In allowing this, Trump and his team are risking the wrath of Israeli hawks in Republican and Democratic circles – not to mention a slightly confused EU, all of whom see this proposal as bending over backwards to a regime that is steadily murdering its way through its own people: truckers, oil workers and human rights activists alike who have the temerity to ask for basic freedoms. It seems that the conversation has been whittled down to Trump’s team talking to Khamenei’s team about narrow interests, while everyone else has conveniently been forgotten.
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