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Tehran has offered Washington a deal which would see the Strait of Hormuz opened and negotiations over the Islamic State’s nuclear program held thereafter.
This proposal addresses the global energy crisis that has arisen as a result of the strait’s closure as well as giving more time for diplomacy over the nuclear program. The plan would however remove President Donald Trump’s leverage over nuclear negotiations by lifting his blockade of the strait while also removing Iran’s leverage of keeping the strait closed.
Citing an American official and two sources with knowledge, Axios reported late Sunday night that “The new proposal, given to the U.S. via the Pakistani mediators, focuses on solving the crisis over the strait and the U.S. blockade first.”
To open the vital international energy corridor, either an extended ceasefire would be enacted or the embattled nations would agree to permanently end the war, which would necessitate the willingness of Israel. After the strait is open and the blockade lifted, nuclear negotiations would begin.
The deal would make for a very similar situation as before the war began. Currently it is unclear if the White House accepts or rejects the plan.
“These are sensitive diplomatic discussions and the U.S. will not negotiate through the press. As the president has said, the United States holds the cards and will only make a deal that puts the American people first, never allowing Iran to have a nuclear weapon,” White House spokesperson Olivia Wales told Axios.
Trump is reportedly considering an Iran nuclear deal with many of the same points he criticized in Obama’s Iran nuclear deal (the JCPOA).
“Billions in frozen assets may be handed back to Iran. Agreements to limit Tehran’s nuclear program may eventually expire. And some of the same hard-line leaders who crushed nationwide protests in January could end up better-resourced than they were before President Donald Trump unleashed crushing airstrikes more than seven weeks ago,” The Washington Post said Wednesday.
Trump was unhappy with the 2015 Iran nuclear deal and withdrew from it during his first term in office.
“After a decade of fiercely attacking a previous deal with Iran, Trump, pursuing a way out of a war he launched, has authorized U.S. negotiators to consider a bargain that involves many of the same trade-offs one of his predecessors confronted,” The Washington Post said.
The 2015 Iran nuclear deal involved Obama shipping $400 million in cash on pallets to Tehran in exchange for the promise they will refrain from developing nuclear weapons.
“Pallets of cash without the pallets,” Peter Doran, a senior adjunct fellow at the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies said.
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