The United States is reportedly considering offering Iran US$30 billion in economic incentives in exchange for an end to Iran’s uranium enrichment efforts.
The draft proposal would see the U.S. or its Arab allies invest US$20-30 billion in an Iranian nuclear energy program for civilian purposes, per CNN.
U.S. President Donald Trump denied these reports. “Who in the Fake News Media is the SleazeBag saying that ‘President Trump wants to give Iran $30 Billion to build non-military Nuclear facilities.’ Never heard of this ridiculous idea,” he wrote on Truth Social.
Iran’s ambassador to the United Nations Amir-Saeid Iravani said today that Iran is willing to negotiate, but will not end its nuclear enrichment program.
The investment plan was reportedly presented one day before the U.S. launched airstrikes against Iran’s Fordow, Isfahan, and Natanz nuclear sites on 22 June.
While Trump has repeatedly claimed that the U.S. airstrikes entirely destroyed the three nuclear facilities, a preliminary assessment from the Pentagon’s Defense Intelligence Agency found that they did not heavily damage critical nuclear infrastructure like centrifuges.
Iran may also have moved its enriched uranium supply from these areas before the strikes, according to International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) head Rafael Grossi. U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said last week that he was not aware of intelligence suggesting it had been moved.
“it is clear that there has been severe damage [to these facilities], but it's not total damage, first of all,” Grossi told CBS News over the weekend. “Iran has the capacities there; industrial and technological capacities. So if they so wish, they will be able to start doing this again.”
The IAEA plans to participate in any diplomatic agreement between the U.S. and Iran on the issue, Grossi said, though a new Iranian law would suspend cooperation with IAEA inspections.
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