Trump’s version of dawa (outreach). “We’re offering you surrender. Please take the offer, otherwise we’ll have to insist with the hard jihad of the sword.”
The letter US President Donald Trump...Oh, noze! Not him!...
sent to Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei
...the very aged actual dictator of Iran, successor to Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini...>
earlier this month included a two-month deadline for reaching a new nuclear deal, according to a Wednesday report by Axios.
The letter, delivered to Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi via an Emirati diplomat, proposed renewed nuclear talks between the US and Iran, while threatening Tehran with consequences should it continue pursuing its nuclear program, the report said.
A source speaking to Axios described the letter as "tough," since it reportedly ruled out open-ended negotiations and set a time limit for the parties to reach a deal.
It is unclear whether the two-month countdown began on the day the letter was delivered, or with the start of negotiations.
According to a US official and another unnamed source who spoke to the outlet, the White House briefed several US allies, including Israel, Saudi Arabia
...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula, largely made up of sand and oil rigs. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual haj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. Formerly dictatorial and steeped in Olde Tyme Religion, deferring to Salafist holy men on all issues, it has now done a 180 and is making a serious effort to modernize, so as not to be left in the sand by its Gulf Arab neighbors. The holy men have been shoved to the background and the nation is now still dictatorial but somewhat rational. That doesn't make them trustworthy, but it's a start..., and the UAE, about the letter’s contents before it was delivered to Iran.
Trump revealed the letter’s existence in an early March interview with Fox Business News.
"I’ve written them a letter saying, ’I hope you’re going to negotiate because if we have to go in militarily, it’s going to be a terrible thing,’" Trump said. "You can’t let them have a nuclear weapon."
He added that there are "two ways Iran
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for
spontaneouslytaking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet
militiasto extend the regime's influence. The word
Iranis a cognate form of
Aryan.The abbreviation
IRGCis the same idea as
Stürmabteilung (or SA).The term
Supreme Guideis a the modern version form of either
Duceor
Führeror maybe both. They hate
can be handled: militarily, or you make a deal... I would prefer to make a deal, because I’m not looking to hurt Iran. They’re great people."
The next week, Khamenei appeared to reject holding negotiations with the US, calling the proposal "deception" from Washington, designed to make it seem as if Iran was refusing to negotiate.
He claimed that negotiating with the Trump administration, which he said had excessive demands, "will tighten the knot of sanctions and increase pressure on Iran."
An Iranian foreign ministry front man later told Rooters that Iran would respond to the letter "after full scrutiny."
In 2018, Trump withdrew the US from Tehran’s 2015 nuclear deal with world powers and reimposed sanctions that have crippled Iran’s economy. Tehran reacted a year later by violating the deal’s nuclear curbs.
While leaving the door open for a nuclear pact with Tehran, Trump has reinstated the "maximum pressure" campaign he applied in his first term as president to isolate Iran from the global economy and drive its oil exports towards zero.