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PRESIDENT TRUMP SAYS HE IS IN "DECIDING MODE" ON IRAN. WHATEVER THE U.S. PRESIDENT DECIDES ON IRAN WILL BE "VERY BIG".
Speaking with Fox News chief foreign correspondent Trey Yingst on Sunday, Trump laid out three options on the table for Iran: wipe the country out militarily, let its economy "rot" under continued sanctions and blockade, or negotiate a settlement. He did not close the door on diplomacy. When asked whether he would sit down with Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian -- who is also traveling to New York for the UNGA High-Level Week running through September 28 -- Trump said he would "probably be open" to a meeting.
"Very big things are going to happen in the not-so-distant future," Trump told Yingst. "My question is, if and when do I blow the entire nation up? They had better behave."
The seven-point memo sent by Tehran via Qatar to Washington contains terms and conditions that need to be met by the US in order to bring Iran back to the negotiating table for a new round of conflict management. Supreme National Security Council chief Mohsen Rezaei announced on Sunday that all seven points of Iranian conditions have been officially relayed to the US through Qatar. Iran's top negotiator Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf also confirmed on Sunday that all seven points had been transmitted through Qatari intermediaries in recent days.
The three points Iran has publicly declared as preconditions for talks are: 1) an immediate and total halt of all aggression against Iran on all fronts; 2) Iran's blocked sovereign funds must immediately be unfrozen and returned to Iran in full; and 3) the naval aggression and blockade of Iran's ports and the strategic waterway of the Strait of Hormuz, as well as all travel by sea in the surrounding waters, must immediately come to an end and all travel and trade by sea in those waters freely resume. Four other points will remain secret until they are accepted by Washington.
Diplomatic window is short, however. Iranian President Pezeshkian will be in town to address UNGA on 24 September, around the same time Trump meets with Chinese President Xi Jinping for a one-on-one. All six GCC leaders — Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, UAE and the rest — are also scheduled to meet the US president during UNGA week, as reported by US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, who called out Iran's current strategic posture as "The snake's dead but it doesn't know it's dead."
Houthi forces in Yemen attacked "sensitive sites" in Riyadh Saturday, with explosions reported near the city's main airport. In response to the Houthi attacks, the State Department issued a security alert for Americans across the Middle East advising them to "maintain a high level of vigilance" and to prepare for possible flight cancellations and disruptions to air travel. However, in comments related to the Houthi activity, Trump said that Washington was still in contact with the group and that they had agreed not to target U.S. personnel.
The UNGA meeting will be a crossroads for diplomacy. Either the gathering will become a platform for negotiations or another great diplomatic failure of the foreign policy interventionists that Trump inherited.
