{"id":967,"date":"2025-07-01T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-07-01T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/logicalware.net\/?p=967"},"modified":"2025-07-01T19:18:42","modified_gmt":"2025-07-01T19:18:42","slug":"5-new-developments-as-israel-iran-ceasefire-nears-a-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/logicalware.net\/index.php\/2025\/07\/01\/5-new-developments-as-israel-iran-ceasefire-nears-a-week\/","title":{"rendered":"5 new developments as Israel-Iran ceasefire nears a week"},"content":{"rendered":"

As the fragile ceasefire<\/a> between Israel and Iran nears one week, there’s little clarity on what comes next in U.S.-Iran relations and whether Iran remains a near-term nuclear threat. <\/p>\n

President Trump and Iran’s leaders have sent mixed signals on resuming nuclear talks, while new evidence called into further question Trump’s claims that U.S. strikes obliterated Iran’s nuclear threat. <\/p>\n

Trump denied reports Monday that he is weighing a $30 billion deal with Iran that would allow for the development of civilian nuclear facilities.<\/p>\n

The ceasefire<\/a> came after a 12-day conflict between Israel and Iran, started when Israel launched an attack on Tehran in June that it said was meant to prevent the country from developing a nuclear bomb. Iran has maintained its nuclear program is not intended to produce a weapon.<\/p>\n

Here are five new developments in the ceasefire:<\/p>\n

Leaked Iran call challenges Trump\u2019s ‘obliterated’ narrative<\/strong><\/h2>\n

The U.S. reportedly intercepted communication between senior Iranian government officials commenting that June’s U.S. strikes on Tehran\u2019s nuclear sites were less devastating than expected.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The Iranian officials in a phone call said the U.S. bombing of three nuclear facilities were not as damaging or extensive as had been expected, challenging the Trump administration\u2019s repeated assertions that the sites and Tehran\u2019s nuclear program were \u201ccompletely and totally obliterated.\u201d <\/p>\n

The call, first reported by The Washington Post<\/a>, follows debate among the intelligence community as to how damaged the Fordow, Natanz and Isfahan nuclear sites were after the strikes.<\/p>\n

While Trump continues to insist the bombings destroyed all they targeted and sent Iran\u2019s nuclear program back by years, a leaked summary from the Pentagon\u2019s Defense Intelligence Agency found that structures underneath Fordow and Natanz were still intact and Tehran was only set back by months, as it had likely moved a significant portion of enriched uranium prior to the strikes.<\/p>\n

After classified briefings last week at the Capitol, Republican lawmakers have conceded that the strikes may not have wiped out all of Iran\u2019s nuclear materials.<\/p>\n

Trump administration officials, while not denying the Iran call\u2019s existence, were quick to attack the Post\u2019s reporting. White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt called the outlet \u201cshameful\u201d for \u201cpublishing out-of-context leaks.\u201d<\/p>\n

She also insisted that \u201cthe notion that unnamed Iranian officials know what happened under hundreds of feet of rubble is nonsense. Their nuclear weapons program is over.\u201d<\/p>\n

And chief Pentagon spokesperson Sean Parnell took to social platform X on Sunday<\/a> to lambast the so-called mainstream media for \u201cengaging in a weaponized smear campaign against America & our incredible troops.\u201d<\/p>\n

He also accused the Post of \u201cusing incomplete, out-of-context & flat-out false intelligence \u2018assessments.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

Grossi says Tehran could restart enriching uranium in ‘months’<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Further contradicting Trump\u2019s claims, the head of the United Nation\u2019s nuclear watchdog said Sunday Iran could restart enriching uranium \u201cin a matter of months.\u201d<\/p>\n

Rafael Grossi, director-general of the International Atomic Energy Agency, said that \u201cone cannot claim that everything has disappeared and there is nothing there\u201d when it comes to Iran\u2019s capabilities. <\/p>\n

\u201cThe capacities they have are there. They can have, you know, in a matter of months, I would say, a few cascades of centrifuges spinning and producing enriched uranium, or less than that,\u201d Grossi told CBS\u2019s \u201cFace the Nation with Margaret Brennan.\u201d<\/p>\n

Grossi also said that while it\u2019s clear Washington\u2019s bombings caused \u201csevere damage,\u201d it didn\u2019t cause \u201ctotal damage.\u201d <\/p>\n

\u201cIran has the capacities there; industrial and technological capacities. So if they so wish, they will be able to start doing this again.\u201d<\/p>\n

Iran\u2019s open to talks if US rules out further strikes<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Iran\u2019s deputy foreign minister on Monday indicated an opening for diplomatic talks<\/a> over the country\u2019s nuclear program, telling the BBC<\/a> that talks could resume should the U.S. agree it will not launch any additional military strikes.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are hearing from Washington, telling us that they want to talk,\u201d Iranian diplomat Majid Takht-Ravanchi told the outlet. \u201cRight now, we are seeking an answer to this question: Are we going to see a repetition of an act of aggression while we are engaging in dialog?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThey have not made their position clear yet,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

Iran has insisted that in any restarted nuclear talks, the nation must ultimately be allowed to enrich uranium for peaceful purposes, which Tehran\u2019s leaders have claimed they were doing<\/a> before the attacks on their program.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe capacity can be discussed but to say that you should not have enrichment, you should have zero enrichment and if you do not agree with bomb you? That is the law of the jungle,\u201d Takht-Ravanchi said.<\/p>\n

Iran\u2019s Ambassador to the United Nations Amir-Saeid Iravani a day earlier told CBS that his country\u2019s uranium enrichment will \u201cnever stop\u201d as it has an \u201cinalienable right\u201d to do so for peaceful nuclear activity.<\/p>\n

Trump not committing to economic incentives<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Despite Iran\u2019s repeated pledges to continue its uranium enrichment, the Trump administration is reportedly exploring possible economic incentives for Tehran should it halt that action.<\/p>\n

CNN first reported that U.S. officials are tentatively considering releasing billions of dollars in frozen Iranian assets and allowing Tehran to receive assistance from regional countries for a civilian nuclear program. The moves would reportedly grant Iran access to as much as $30 billion.<\/p>\n

But Trump late Friday pushed back on the report<\/a> and denied Iran would be offered any such concessions. <\/p>\n

\u201cWho in the Fake News Media is the SleazeBag saying that \u2018President Trump wants to give Iran $30 Billion to build non-military Nuclear facilities.\u2019 Never heard of this ridiculous idea,\u201d he wrote\u00a0on Truth Social<\/a>.<\/p>\n

On Monday, the president doubled down. <\/p>\n

\u201cI am not offering Iran ANYTHING, unlike [former President] Obama, who paid them $Billions under the stupid \u2018road to a Nuclear Weapon JCPOA (which would now be expired!),\u201d he wrote on Truth Social<\/a>, adding \u201cnor am I even talking to them since we totally OBLITERATED their Nuclear Facilities.\u201d<\/p>\n

Trump in 2018 pulled the U.S. out of the Obama-era nuclear deal \u2014 the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action \u2014 with Iran, claiming that sanctions relief and unfreezing of Iranian assets had only provided funds to the regime to continue keeping its nuclear weapons ambitions afloat. <\/p>\n

But Trump earlier Friday suggested he could retract previously imposed sanctions on Iran.<\/p>\n

Netanyahu to meet with Trump in DC<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Amid all the uncertainty, Trump will host Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the White House next week.<\/p>\n

The meeting, set for July 7 and first reported by Axios, comes as Trump has stepped up pressure on the Israeli government to bring about an end to its war in Gaza now that a ceasefire with Israel and Iran has appeared to hold.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe think within the next week we\u2019re going to get a ceasefire\u201d in Gaza, Trump told reporters Friday, but declined to offer any further details of such a deal.<\/p>\n

Leavitt said Monday bringing an end to the Gaza conflict is a priority for Trump and that he and administration officials were in constant communication with the Israelis.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s heartbreaking to see the images that have come out from both Israel and Gaza throughout this war, and the president wants to see it end,\u201d Leavitt said. \u201cHe wants to save lives.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ahead of Netanyahu\u2019s visit, Israeli Minister for Strategic Affairs Ron Dermer \u2014 a close confidant of the prime minister \u2014 is in Washington this week for talks with senior administration officials on Iran, Gaza and other issues.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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