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IRAN MAY, OR MAY NOT, BE OPEN TO NEGOTIATE BALLISTIC MISSILES
Iran’s foreign minister has suggested for the first time that the Islamic Republic’s ballistic missile program could be up for negotiations with the U.S., a possible opening for talks as tensions remain high between Tehran and Washington over the collapsing nuclear deal.
Mohammad Javad Zarif offered an initially high price for such negotiations — the halt of American arms sales to both Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, two key U.S. allies in the Persian Gulf.
But the fact that he mentioned it at all potentially represents a change in policy. The country’s ballistic missile program remains under control of the Iranian paramilitary Revolutionary Guard, which answers only to Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
The comment comes as Iran continues its own high-pressure campaign over its nuclear program after President Donald Trump unilaterally withdrew America from the accord over a year ago.
Recently, Iran has inched its uranium production and enrichment over the limits of its 2015 nuclear deal, trying to put more pressure on Europe to offer it better terms and allow it to sell its crude oil abroad.
However, those tensions also have seen the U.S. send thousands of additional troops, nuclear-capable B-52 bombers and advanced fighter jets into the Mideast. Mysterious attacks on oil tankers and Iran shooting down a U.S. military surveillance drone has added to the fears of an armed conflict breaking out.
Zarif brought up the ballistic missile offer during an interview with NBC News that aired Monday night as he’s in New York for meetings at the United Nations. He mentioned the UAE spending $22 billion and Saudi Arabia spending $67 billion on weapons last year, many of them American-made, while Iran spent only $16 billion in comparison….
Trump during his time in the White House has pointed to arms sales to the Mideast as important to the American economy, so it remains unclear how he’d react to cutting into those purchases…. (Excerpts from Breitbart News and AP News article)
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Lord thank You for everything. Thank You for prayer. Lord I hope the people of Iran and Suadi Arabia and The United Arab Emirates put pressure on their governments not use billions on arms but to use that money to help their own people. May You Father God open the minds and hearts of people worldwide to You and not towards an arms race. I pray this in the name of Jesus Christ. Amen.
Lord God, Almighty Sovereign, thank you for your eternal reign and over lordship in human affairs. The rulers
of this world are here for such a time as this. Unleash your gospel in ancient Persia, Lord. Take a harvest there, O Holy One. Establish your holiness and righteousness before them O Great King.