A senior official of the White House said on Wednesday that the ten-point plan made public by Iran, which contains a priori demands difficult for Washington to accept, is not the document that serves as a basis for negotiations with the US, informs AFP.
“The document mentioned by the press is not the plan we are working on. We will not negotiate in public,” said this source, requesting anonymity, after Donald Trump had mentioned a “viable” plan submitted by Iran on Tuesday, according to Agerpres.
The US president harshly criticized, in a message published on his Truth Social network on Wednesday, “the numerous agreements, lists and letters sent by people who have absolutely nothing to do with the Iran-US negotiations; many times they are liars and charlatans or WORSE”.
“There are only a set of pertinent 'POINTS' that are acceptable to the U.S. and we will discuss them behind closed doors,” Trump added, continuing: “These are the POINTS that we agreed to a Ceasefire. It's something that's reasonable and can be easily worked out.”
The Islamic Republic's commitment not to develop nuclear weapons, but also recognition by the United States of Iran's right to enrich uranium and negotiations on the level of enrichment are among the ten points of the plan that Tehran proposed to Washington to negotiate an end to the war.
The first round of talks to end the war through a peace treaty will take place on Friday in Islamabad, the Pakistani capital, and will be based on a ten-point plan presented by Tehran that includes many of Iran's pre-war demands launched 40 days ago by the United States and Israel.
The 10 points are:
- Complete cessation of all aggression against Iran and allied resistance groups.
- Withdrawing US combat forces from the region, prohibiting any attacks launched from US bases against Iran, and refraining from offensive military deployments.
- Limited daily vessel transit through the Strait of Hormuz for two weeks under a safe passage protocol overseen and regulated by Iran.
- Lifting of all primary, secondary and UN sanctions against Iran.
- Compensation for the damages suffered by Iran through the creation of an investment and financial fund.
- Iran's commitment not to develop nuclear weapons.
- Recognition by the United States of Iran's right to enrich uranium and negotiations on the level of enrichment.
- Iran's willingness to negotiate bilateral and multilateral peace agreements with countries in the region according to its interests.
- Extending the principle of non-aggression to all actors who have attacked resistance groups.
- Completion of all Board of Governors (International Atomic Energy Agency, IAEA) and Security Council (UN) resolutions and adoption of all commitments in one formal UN resolution.
