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13 hours ago
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Trump Sees Iran Deal That Allows US to Destroy Nuclear Sites
(Bloomberg) -- US President Donald Trump said he envisions a nuclear deal with Iran that would allow the destruction of 'whatever we want' in the country including labs, a version of an inspections regime that is likely to be rejected by Tehran. NYC Congestion Toll Brings In $216 Million in First Four Months NY Wins Order Against US Funding Freeze in Congestion Fight Now With Colorful Blocks, Tirana's Pyramid Represents a Changing Albania NY Congestion Pricing Is Likely to Stay Until Year End During Court Case Why Arid Cities Should Stick Together Speaking at the White House on Wednesday, Trump briefly outlined his vision of a deal that is 'very strong, where we can go in with inspectors. We can take whatever we want. We can blow up whatever we want. But nobody getting killed,' he said. Trump also said he believed a deal with Iran could be completed within 'the next couple of weeks' and that talks had made 'a lot of progress.' But his comments about destroying nuclear facilities highlight a major sticking point between the two over whether Iran should be allowed to produce its own enriched uranium. An advisor to Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran's Supreme Leader, dismissed Trump's ideas. 'Accessing Iran's nuclear sites and 'blowing up infrastructure' is a fantasy past US presidents shared. Iran is independent, with strong defenses, resilient people, and clear red lines,' Ali Shamkhani said in a post on X on Thursday. 'Talks serve progress, interests, and dignity, not coercion or surrender,' he added. It's not clear if the ability to dismantle or destroy infrastructure in the event that Iran is found to be weaponizing its enrichment capability is a demand that US negotiators have formally put to Iranian counterparts in their current talks. Trump's comments came in response to questions about reports Israel has revived plans to attack Iran. He said he advised Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu against that idea as it could disrupt ongoing talks between the US and Iran. Trump described an alternative that gave the US the option to destroy infrastructure related to a weapons program that would be baked into an agreement with Iran. 'We can blow up a lab, but nobody's going to be in the lab, as opposed to everybody being in the lab and blowing it up, right?' he added. After the 1991 Gulf War, a United Nations-led regime was imposed on Iraq in which inspectors were allowed to destroy nuclear and chemical weapons-related infrastructure. Iran has repeatedly warned the US against threats of military action. Iranian officials insist their nuclear program is for peaceful purposes only and uranium enrichment is necessary for its nuclear power sector. Earlier on Wednesday officials in Iran said they'd consider allowing Americans to be part of International Atomic Energy Agency inspection teams under a future deal with the US, a walkback from a practice of excluding inspectors who are US nationals. Trump's comments about being able to destroy nuclear infrastructure may make officials in Iran rethink the concession. Despite the apparent distance between expectations, Trump sounded optimistic about a deal, which his special envoy Steve Witkoff has been negotiating. 'They still have to agree to the final stages of a document, but I think you could be very well surprised what happens there, and it would be a great thing for them,' Trump said. 'They could have a great country into the future.' After talks in Rome on Friday, the Iranian foreign minister and lead negotiator, Abbas Araghchi, said they could lead to progress toward an agreement in the next couple of meetings. (Updates with response from an advisor to Iran's Supreme Leader.) Mark Zuckerberg Loves MAGA Now. Will MAGA Ever Love Him Back? YouTube Is Swallowing TV Whole, and It's Coming for the Sitcom Millions of Americans Are Obsessed With This Japanese Barbecue Sauce Inside the First Stargate AI Data Center How Coach Handbags Became a Gen Z Status Symbol ©2025 Bloomberg L.P.
Miami Herald
14 hours ago
- Politics
- Miami Herald
Trump sees Iran deal that allows US to destroy nuclear sites
U.S. President Donald Trump said he envisions a nuclear deal with Iran that would allow the destruction of "whatever we want" in the country including labs, a version of an inspections regime that is likely to be rejected by Tehran. Speaking at the White House on Wednesday, Trump briefly outlined his vision of a deal that is "very strong, where we can go in with inspectors. We can take whatever we want. We can blow up whatever we want. But nobody getting killed," he said. Trump also said he believed a deal with Iran could be completed within "the next couple of weeks" and that talks had made "a lot of progress." But his comments about destroying nuclear facilities highlight a major sticking point between the two over whether Iran should be allowed to produce its own enriched uranium. It's not clear if the ability to dismantle or destroy infrastructure in the event that Iran is found to be weaponizing its enrichment capability is a demand that U.S. negotiators have formally put to Iranian counterparts in their current talks. Trump's comments came in response to questions about reports Israel has revived plans to attack Iran. He said he waived Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu off that idea as it could disrupt ongoing talks between the U.S. and Iran. Trump described an alternative that gave the U.S. the option to destroy infrastructure related to a weapons program that would be baked into an agreement with Iran. "We can blow up a lab, but nobody's going to be in the lab, as opposed to everybody being in the lab and blowing it up, right?" he added. Iranian officials haven't yet commented on his statements. After the 1991 Gulf War, a United Nations-led regime was imposed on Iraq in which inspectors were allowed to destroy nuclear and chemical weapons-related infrastructure. Iran has repeatedly warned the U.S. against threats of military action. Iranian officials insist their nuclear program is for peaceful purposes only and uranium enrichment is necessary for its nuclear power sector. Earlier on Wednesday officials in Iran said they'd consider allowing Americans to be part of International Atomic Energy Agency inspection teams under a future deal with the U.S., a walkback from a practice of excluding inspectors who are U.S. nationals. Trump's comments about being able to destroy nuclear infrastructure may make officials in Iran rethink the concession. Despite the apparent distance between expectations, Trump sounded optimistic about a deal, which his special envoy Steve Witkoff has been negotiating. "They still have to agree to the final stages of a document, but I think you could be very well surprised what happens there, and it would be a great thing for them," Trump said. "They could have a great country into the future." After talks in Rome on Friday, the Iranian foreign minister and lead negotiator, Abbas Araghchi, said they could lead to progress toward an agreement in the next couple of meetings. Copyright (C) 2025, Tribune Content Agency, LLC. Portions copyrighted by the respective providers.
15 hours ago
- Business
Japan, Kuwait Agree to Upgrade Relationship
News from Japan Politics May 29, 2025 21:58 (JST) Tokyo, May 29 (Jiji Press)--Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba and Kuwaiti Crown Prince Sheikh Sabah Khalid Al-Hamad Al-Sabah on Thursday agreed to elevate the relationship between Japan and Kuwait to a "comprehensive strategic partnership." They met at the prime minister's office in Tokyo, pledging to cooperate on stabilizing the crude oil market and promoting decarbonization efforts. Ishiba said that "the two countries have been friends who have helped each other through historical difficulties, such as the Gulf War and the (March 2011) Great East Japan Earthquake." He expressed appreciation for the stable crude oil supply from Kuwait. The crown price replied that his country has been working on stabilizing the international crude oil market. Earlier in the day, Ishiba held separate talks with his Tanzanian counterpart, Kassim Majaliwa Majaliwa, confirming the strengthening of relations between their countries. [Copyright The Jiji Press, Ltd.] Jiji Press
USA Today
a day ago
- Politics
- USA Today
Trump's getting his military parade. Here's what they look like from France to Russia
Hear this story Formations. Drills and maneuvers. Music and ceremony. President Donald Trump wanted a military parade that bests what he once witnessed in France. But raw displays of military power are more common to ones in Russia, China and North Korea, where such parades carry added meanings. Up to 7,500 troops, 120 vehicles and 50 aircraft will take to the streets and skies of Washington, D.C. on June 14 to celebrate the U.S. Army's 250th anniversary. The event coincides with Trump's 79th birthday. It also marks a rare example of an official military parade taking place inside the United States. Trump's desire to hold a parade has been linked to his 2017 attendance of France's annual Bastille Day, which celebrates that nation's revolutionary history, values and culture. After marveling at the showcase of tanks and fighter jets along the Champs-Élysée in Paris, Trump told French President Emmanuel Macron he wanted to "top" it. "It was one of the greatest parades I've ever seen," he added a few months later. "It was military might." But the French parade is not at its core a display of military power, historians and military experts say. Countries from Iran to North Korea that regularly indulge in large military parades in front of the world's cameras do so in part to send aggressive political and propagandistic messages to adversaries at home and abroad. "There's definitely a correlation between putting on a military parade and authoritarian regimes," said Markus Schiller, CEO of Munich, Germany-based company ST Analytics, an aerospace and security consultancy. "These parades are about sending message to other countries and also to domestic political rivals," he said. "You won't seen any parades like this in Germany or Norway or Australia because they cost a lot of money and everybody would just shake their heads and say, 'Why does the government need to do this?'" Trump has said the parade's cost will be a bargain. 'It's peanuts compared to the value of doing it," he said. "We have the greatest missiles in the world. We have the greatest submarines in the world. We have the greatest army tanks in the world. We have the greatest weapons in the world. And we're going to celebrate it." Trump's military parade is not new idea: It's actually a retro one Parade enthusiasts: Russia, China, North Korea The U.S. government has sponsored military parades previously. Troops, tanks and war planes have also shown up at American presidential inaugurations, including those of Presidents Dwight Eisenhower and John Kennedy. The last high-profile military parade was in 1991, to commemorate the end of the Gulf War. Russia, China, Iran and North Korea are among nations who routinely stage grand parades featuring military personnel and hardware such as missile systems, goose-stepping troops, tanks and other armored vehicles. On May 9, Russia's President Vladimir Putin hosted China's President Xi Jinping and more than 20 other world leaders as thousands of troops and columns of trucks carrying drones and other weapons paraded through Red Square. The highly choreographed annual event commemorates the Soviet Union's victory over Nazi Germany. The drones, displayed for the first time, were an apparent reference to Russia's deadly use of them in Ukraine. Russia rehearses Victory Day parade: Putin flaunts military power amid Ukraine War According to a planning document seen by USA TODAY, the parade on June 14 and a series of related events in Washington, D.C., beginning the first week of June, will cost up to $45 million. On the day of the parade, there will be a wreath-laying ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery and a festival on the National Mall featuring Army equipment displays and demonstrations. The day will culminate with a parade through the city and an enlistment ceremony presided over by Trump − and fireworks. The parade will salute the Army's heritage from the Revolutionary War to the present, with soldiers in period uniforms. Putting a finger on military power Lyle Goldstein is a former professor at the U.S. Naval War College. He said that while overseas military parades are often associated with authoritarian regimes "whose goals are manifested by the parade, and a lot of those goals relate to nationalism," parades can serve a wider positive purpose. They honor sacrifices, instill national pride and offer reassurances about defense spending. They can also, Goldstein said, simultaneously act as a deterrent and betray insecurities. "We know from human behavior that if you're insecure you can lash out or be showy. If, as Americans, we were truly confident in our armed forces we wouldn't need to display our military might," said Goldstein, who now runs the Asia program at Defense Priorities, a Washington, D.C. think tank. Goldstein's research has helped establish that in some areas of defense, such as hypersonic missiles, the U.S. is not keeping pace with China and Russia. Still, Schiller, of ST Analytics, said that military parades are also often about "tricks" and "playing games" to create the illusion of military power that may not exist, or only partly exist. The U.S. is not expected to show off any of its long-range missiles and rockets on June 14. France also refrains from featuring these in its Bastille Day celebrations, not least because if an accident were to take place it could have devastating consequences for those attending the event. But rapid, intercontinental ballistic missiles capable of reaching the U.S. are a regular feature of military parades in China and North Korea. "No nation I know of ever parades the real thing," said Schiller, referring to these missiles, as well as ones in military parades in India and Pakistan. He said mock-up missiles are often paraded with details such as cables and diameters tweaked so analysts studying images of them can't definitively conclude what they're seeing. France's Bastille Day − more than a parade Jean-Yves Camus is a defense expert at the Paris-based French Institute for International and Strategic Affairs. He said the Bastille Day event that apparently captivated Trump's imagination is not "mainly about the army." He said the ceremony is not to everyone's tastes and "left-wing people" generally don't like it and so don't attend. Camus said the military aspect was "simply a glimpse" at France's different units and that while other nation might use parades to show off "strong leadership, if not autocratic leadership," that wasn't the case in France. "Macron will attend this year, and then the next year or year after that, there will be a new president." "Most people go because it's really very fascinating, and you have this very beautiful, wide avenue − the Champs-Élysée − to watch it from," Camus added. "The night before there are joyful events scattered all over Paris. People go dancing. There is music. You have, I would say, this profound sense of connection with history." Contributing: Cybele Mayes-Osterman and Tom Vanden Brook
Yahoo
a day ago
- General
- Yahoo
GA police dept. mourns sergeant's loss
Waynesboro police announced the death of Sgt. Jose Colon Wednesday morning. Colon died after an extended health issue, the department said via social media. [DOWNLOAD: Free WSB-TV News app for alerts as news breaks] He had served on the police force for the city south of Augusta since 2018, working his way up from patrol officer to sergeant. As a sergeant, he served as shift supervisor, evidence custodian, armorer and fleet manager. TRENDING STORIES: Todd and Julie Chrisley released from federal prison after pardon from President Trump Former Kool & the Gang member dies in car crash in Mableton Marietta hotel fined women hundreds for smoking, but they say other activities tripped sensors Colon was also an Army veteran, having served during the Gulf War. Waynesboro police described Colon as 'a true hero who dedicated his life to serving both our country and our community.' The department said he will be missed by his colleagues and asked for the public to keep his family and loved ones in their thoughts and prayers. 'Thank you for your service, Sergeant Colon. We'll take it from here,' Waynesboro police said. [SIGN UP: WSB-TV Daily Headlines Newsletter]
