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A young real estate lawyer named Steve Witcoof was befriending Donald Trump with New York in the 1980s, Abbas Araghchi was working with the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps on the front line of the brutal Iran-Iraq war.
Now, four decades later, the 62-year-old man is the personal selection of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, to lead Iran in talks with Trump’s ambassador Witkoff, whether the country has signed a nuclear deal in the United States or has taken a military conflict.
British-educated Foreign Minister, known for his short behavior, helped to secure in the 21st Nuclear contract Trump with world powers that Trump had abandoned Trump in his first term, an experience that kept the diplomat well trying to throw an agreement.
And seriously, politicians, diplomats and analysts say that Araghchi stands as a person who has been able to stay in Iran’s deadly political struggle and has established support in rival parties. The reformist President Masood Pageshkian was upgraded to this job, he also kept roots in conservative circles through his distinguished religious family and maintained association with revolutionary guards.
“He is the right person at the right time to play a historic role, and all political parties agree,” the reformist analyst Saeed the Lailaj says. “His political, diplomatic and protection certificates, with his experience in nuclear discussions and put him in a unique position.”
On Sunday, a quarter of the United States and Iran organized an indirect discussion in Oman, the Foreign Ministry spokesman of the Islamic Republic, Esmail Bakai described them as “difficult but useful”.
Not like Araghchi, Witcoof had no previous diplomatic experience Before Trump appointed him. Nevertheless, both enjoy their leaders’ full confidence, raising temporary hope that a progress may be possible despite the complications of huge disbelief and acceptable agreement to both parties.
Iranian analysts believe that any possible agreement will participate in the personal relationship between two men. Araghchi, who is kept in his public comments, has repeatedly said that he is feeling “alert optimism”.
Countries, of course, are present Far away on important issuesAnd some Western and regional diplomats still believe that military conflict is a high probability.
US officials have given a mixed message about what they expect from Tehran. Witcoof told Breitbart on Friday that the Islamic Republic had to break its three major nuclear benefits and warned that if the talks did not progress on Sunday, “they will not continue and we have to take a separate path.”
“This is our red line. No prosperity that means to break it,” he said. Foreign Minister Marco Rubio has said that if the US stops being enriched natively in the United States and importing fissile material, the United States can adopt Iran by observing the United States nuclear program.
It, instead of, a red line for IranWhich emphasizes that the country must be able to enrich uranium for civilian purposes. Iran has indicated that it is willing to guarantee the international community about the peaceful intention of the program.
Under the JCPOA agreement of 20, Iran agreed to work hard on nuclear activities, but was able to enrich a limited amount of uranium up to 1.6767 percent of purity. Although the agreement has collapsed, Iran’s enrichment has increased by up to 605 percent, close to the grade of weapons.
Araghchi also resisted any efforts to expand the negotiations to include its missile power and regional security strategy. Prior to Sunday’s discussion, he said that Iran’s nuclear rights were “non-negotiable”. “Enrichment has been one of the Iranian people,” he said.
Tehran’s Western diplomats respect Aragachi’s tactics of what they say. He was born in a well -known trading family in Tehran. After the Iran-Iraq war, he served as Ambassador to Finland and Japan before entering a foreign service, and earned his PhD in politics at Kent University before becoming Deputy Foreign Minister during the previous nuclear discussion.
Seriously, Araghchi was not the victim of this political battle that former President Hassan Rouhani and his Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zavad, JCPOA architects who were later directed by the triggers for their role in the agreement.
Foreign foreign policy expert Rahman Ghahremenpur, a nearest negotiators, said, “Araghi avoids controversial politics. This is an power in the current climate.” “Even the hardliners now think that they have a part of the discussion – not the same as before, when they felt deprived and humiliated.”
The reformist President Pageshkian has kept a lower profile, some analysts explained as an intentional step in avoiding anti -fanatics and giving Aragachi a house to the revolutionary guards, the most powerful military institution in Iran and who have direct access to Iran.
Lailaj said that “the real leadership of the talks with Mr. Khamenei and the security forces is constant, the Foreign Minister” is so well-integrated with them that there is only any gap in the process. “
The discussion came at a time when Iran was involved in its cemetery from the war of the decade.
Israel has launched a devastating attack against Iranian proxy forces like Hezbollah for the past 6 months, while the Islamic Republic of the Islamic Republic of Assad has lost a key allies. SyriaThe Last year, tight-tat strikes with Israel expressed weakness in Iran’s military infrastructure, Israel claimed that Iran’s nuclear program hit a component.
The new US sanctions imposed under Trump, part of its “maximum pressure” promotion, have been associated with economic weakness.
To simplify Iran’s isolation and increase support for the nuclear deal, Araghchi briefed regional powers like Saudi Arabia as well as allies like Russia and China in recent weeks, which opposed the 20 agreement, but now the back of the diplomatic solution.
Yet Araghchi knows that without the results, his political capital at home may not last forever.
“He is intensely aware of what the architects of GCPOA might be – and know that it could happen to him,” said Gahremenpur. “That’s why he avoided exaggerated optimism. He always emphasized that he was ‘optimistic’ – only if the discussion failed.”
