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by Con Coughlin • April 30, 2025 at 5:00 am
* Trump argued that the JCPOA failed to address key issues such as Iran's continued research into producing weapons-grade nuclear material, development of ballistic missiles and Tehran's support for Islamist terror groups in the Middle East. Is he repeating their mistake?
* Reports emerging from the Omani-mediated talks suggest that, rather than seeking the complete dismantlement of Iran's nuclear programme, Trump is instead prepared to settle for a less demanding settlement, one that allows Tehran to continue with its nuclear activities so long as they are not linked to producing nuclear warheads. At this point, that is folly. If Iran is able to enrich any uranium at all, it can easily enrich it to a weapons-grade level of 90 percent within weeks.
* Yet, despite compelling evidence that Iran has continued work on its clandestine programme to produce nuclear weapons, American intelligence chiefs such as Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard continue to insist that there is insufficient evidence to conclude that Iran is actively attempting to build nuclear weapons.
* This has led to calls for the administration to undertake an immediate reappraisal of Washington's intelligence assessment regarding Iran's nuclear ambitions to acquire nuclear weapons as a devastating matter of urgency, and for the Trump administration to undertake an urgent reappraisal of Gabbard.
* Sadly, the Norwegian Nobel Committee will most likely never reward Trump with the Nobel Peace Prize, no matter how much peace he delivers. To them, a worthy recipient was Yasser Arafat, among other leaders now known more for their failures than for success.
* Trump instead would do well to focus on becoming the greatest leader of the 21^st Century, another Churchill, by ridding the world of Iran's nuclear weapons threat for once and all, as well as its ballistic missile program and its ability, through its proxies, to keep exporting terrorism.

Despite compelling evidence that Iran has continued work on its clandestine programme to produce nuclear weapons, American intelligence chiefs such as Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard continue to insist that there is insufficient evidence to conclude that Iran is actively attempting to build nuclear weapons. Pictured: Gabbard at a Senate Committee on Intelligence Hearing on March 25, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)

With the Trump administration seemingly intent on negotiating a new nuclear deal with Iran, it is vital that the White House first makes a realistic assessment of the current state of Iran's nuclear programme, which most Western intelligence experts believe is aimed at producing nuclear weapons.

After US and Iranian officials met for a third round of talks in the Gulf state of Oman at the weekend, Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi openly said that Iran remained extremely cautious about the success of the negotiations to resolve a decades-long standoff.

US President Donald J. Trump has invested a substantial amount of political capital in agreeing a new deal with Tehran, aimed at preventing Iran from acquiring its own nuclear weapons arsenal.

Trump, a staunch critic of the original nuclear deal negotiated by in 2015 by President Barack Obama, the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), dramatically ended American participation in 2018.

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