 "Trump may offer new deal to Iran, US envoy Steve Witkoff likely to meet Iranian foreign minister")
In what has been described as a last chance, US President Donald Trump may offer Iran a deal to end the war in a meeting this week, according to reports.
Over the past five days, Israel has wiped out Iran's military brass, top nuclear scientists, destroyed air defences, and struck scores of military targets, including missile launchers and missile production sites. Israel has said the attack was required as Iran was nearing the point of no return in developing a nuclear bomb.
The Jerusalem Post has reported that Trump is expected to present a ’last chance’ offer to Iran in the coming days.
Separately, Axios has reported that a meeting between US Middle East Envoy Steve Witkoff and Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi is under consideration to reach a deal regarding Iran’s nuclear programme and strike a ceasefire in the ongoing war.
**_Follow our live coverage of the Israel-Iran war here_**While Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has maintained that Iran uses talks to just buy more time, Trump has said that he does not want to get involved in the war militarily. Instead, he has said that he sees the war as a leverage to reach a deal with Iran.
What’s inside Trump’s ’last chance’ offer to Iran?
The Jerusalem Post has reported an official as saying that the ’last chance’ offer might even be slightly better than the previous proposal.
While the official did not go into the specifics, it appeared to be a reference to the 'bridge proposal' that Witkoff had floated to bridge the distance between the US and Iranian positions in the nuclear talks. He had proposed that until a regional consortium for civil nuclear purposes takes shape, Iran may enrich uranium to low levels required for civilian purposes.
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The Post reported that the revised offer’s ultimate objective, like the previous one, would be to ultimately have zero uranium enrichment in Iran.
Separately, Axios has reported that the potential Witkoff-Araghchi meeting could be a make-or-break moment for the question of whether the United States will join the war against Iran.
An official said the decision regarding ‘bunker busters’, the bombs needed to destroy Iranian sites deep underground, as an “inflection point” and said that Trump “thinks in terms of deals and leverage and this is leverage”.
The official further said, “They do want to talk, but what we don’t know is, ‘have they been brought to their knees fully so that they realise that in order to have a country, they have to talk?’ And assuming they get there, is there any degree of enrichment you would allow them to have?”
The Post further reported a source as saying that there is disagreement within the Trump administration about how to go about the Iran question. The source said that while the US Central Command said that attacking Iran is the right thing, there are those in Trump’s circle who oppose US military involvement.
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