An urgent message was conveyed to the team Trump negotiators regarding the manipulative nuclear weapons negotiating tactics of the Islamic Republic of Iran. Experts warned against repeating the mistakes of the flawed nuclear deal made during the Obama era.
Upon withdrawing from the agreement in 2018, President Trump strongly criticized the one-sided nature of Obama’s deal with Iran. He emphasized that the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) failed to prevent Iran from progressing towards nuclear weapon development.
United Against Nuclear Iran (UANI) experts released a report outlining Iran’s 10 strategic negotiating tactics. These tactics enable Iran to extract significant concessions while still maintaining the ability to pursue nuclear armament.
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi, left, speaks with an unidentified Omani official upon his arrival at Muscat, Oman, Friday, April 25, 2025, a day prior to negotiations with U.S. Mideast envoy Steve Witkoff. (AP)
UANI says Iran is seeking to play the EU against U.S. to weaken the Western alliance. The experts wrote that Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali “Ayatollah Khamenei’s overarching strategy has been rooted in his so-called ‘West without the U.S.’ method. Grounded in Khamenei’s and the Islamic Republic’s vehement anti-Americanism, this strategy has sought to divide the Europeans from the U.S. to undercut U.S. national interests.”
UANI argued that the Iranian regime’s “gimmicks are meant to try to mask the fact that the Iranians are offering nothing more than the concessions it made to President Obama under the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) of 2015.”
Iran seeks to manipulate nuclear talks to diminish the “ideal conditions for Israel and/or the U.S. to take military action against Tehran,” noted UANI. Trump’s military threats to target Iran’s nuclear facilities have forced Tehran to engage in negotiations, according to the experts.
Steve Witkoff, U.S. special envoy to the Middle East, speaks in the Oval Office of the White House on Feb. 3, 2025. (Jim Watson/AFP via Getty Images)
President Donald Trump may prefer a diplomatic solution to stop Iran’s creep toward a nuclear weapon, but recently claimed he’ll be “leading the pack” to war with the regime if talks falter.
“I think we’re going to make a deal with Iran,” he told Time magazine in an interview published Friday, while claiming that President Joe Biden had allowed Iran to “become rich.”
Fox News’ Morgan Phillips and Reuters contributed to this report.
