Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said a draft agreement for the United States would be “ready within two to three days.”
“The next step for me is to present a draft of a possible agreement to my counterparts in the United States. I believe that in the next two or three days it will be ready and, after final confirmation from my superiors, it will be delivered to Steve Witkoff,” Araghchi said in an interview published online on the Morning Joe program of the US television network MSNBC.
New York Times: “No clear explanation from Trump on why to attack Iran”
Donald Trump weighs his options for Iran but so far has provided no explanation as to why to attack and why to do so now. The New York Times states this, underlining how the president has not provided any assessment of the urgency of the possible threat coming from Iran or why he wants to strike Tehran’s nuclear sites which he has repeatedly said have been “obliterated” by the Midnight Hammer attack.
While Trump appears focused on Iran’s nuclear weapons, his advisors have each time provided different motivations for a possible attack, from protecting protesters to destroying the country’s missile arsenal to the need to end Tehran’s support for Hamas and Hezbollah. One of the issues is whether “military force can actually achieve these goals. Most of the uranium” was destroyed in June “and it is unclear how air strikes can help protesters or convince Iran to stop financing terrorism,” highlights the New York Times. The president “never clearly described his objectives” and did not stop to explain and “prepare Americans for an attack against a country of 90 million inhabitants. He did not explain why this is the time to face Iran and not North Korea”, observes the New York Times, noting how “rarely in modern history has the United States prepared to conduct an act of war with so little explanation and so little debate”.