{"id":7409,"date":"2025-05-15T23:52:09","date_gmt":"2025-05-16T04:52:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/?p=7409"},"modified":"2025-05-15T23:52:09","modified_gmt":"2025-05-16T04:52:09","slug":"7409","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/2025\/05\/15\/7409\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/world\/middle-east\/trump-says-u-s-iran-close-to-nuclear-deal-5f02fbc5?mod=hp_lead_pos4\">\u201cTrump Says U.S., Iran Close to Nuclear Deal,\u201d<\/a> WSJ, 5-15-25.\u00a0\u00a0\u201cTrump cited a story published Thursday setting out Iran\u2019s position on the talks.\u00a0\u00a0 \u2026\u00a0 an NBC interview with Ali Shamkhani, a top adviser to Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. In the interview, Shamkhani said that Tehran was ready to make concessions to secure a nuclear deal with Washington. However, he didn\u2019t signal any change in Iran\u2019s most important red line\u2014an insistence that Tehran is able to continue enriching uranium. Trump and other top officials have said Iran shouldn\u2019t have an enrichment program under a new nuclear deal. Shamkhani said Iran would commit to never making nuclear weapons, scrap its stockpile of highly enriched, near weapons-grade uranium and agree to enrich uranium only at low levels of purity needed for a civilian peaceful program.\u201d\u00a0 And the U.S. would offer great sanctions relief.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cTrump Says U.S., Iran Close to Nuclear Deal,\u201d WSJ, 5-15-25.\u00a0\u00a0\u201cTrump cited a story published Thursday setting out Iran\u2019s position on the talks.\u00a0\u00a0 \u2026\u00a0 an NBC interview with Ali Shamkhani, a top adviser to Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. In the interview, Shamkhani said that Tehran was ready to make concessions to secure a nuclear &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/2025\/05\/15\/7409\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2819,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2532],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-update"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7409","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2819"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7409"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7409\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7410,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7409\/revisions\/7410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}