President Trump has said the U.S. will work with Iran to retrieve and destory its highly enriched uranium if he is able to cut a deal. That deal includes not developing, acquiring or buying nuclear weapons. There's also the issue of unfreezing Iranian assets. Trump seems to think the new leadership is more rational and might be accepting of those terms.

“It's important to remember that Iran is a signatory of the nuclear non-proliferation treaty and under that they have the right to enrich uranium up to a certain level. They want the United States to respect that right, they want the United States to end sanctions, and they want some variation of either war reparations, the unfreezing of the money that is being held in other banks due to the sanctions, as well as the tolls that they want to charge on some of the shipping,” says Osamah Khalil, chair of the International Relations Undergraduate Program.

“There's a balance in here that needs to be reached. What does the money look like? How much do the sanctions get reduced? Are they eliminated, etc. But I think this idea that the Iranians are going to turn uranium over is really posturing. They're not going to turn the uranium over. What they may be willing to do is actually downgrade the uranium to a certain level under UN or international auspices and the United States is going to have to agree to that,” he says.

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