WAR IRAN
It is now the 39th time that Donald Trump has said he has made a deal with Iran to end the war. The American president is so confident of the agreement that he wants to sign it together with Iran on Sunday in Geneva, Switzerland. But what exactly does that deal, which would be put on the table next Sunday, entail? And above all: how feasible is it? This is what VTM NIEUWS war journalist Robin Ramaekers says.
Robin Ramaekers, Seren Goeman
For the Americans, it is an absolute top priority: reopening the crucial Strait of Hormuz in both directions. “But Iran is not simply handing over that ultimate leverage. They are demanding the immediate release of their frozen foreign assets,” Ramaekers explains. The price for an open strait? $24 billion. Tehran demands that at least half of that huge amount be released immediately once the deal has been signed.
Uranium
“If the agreement is signed next Sunday, a 60-day ceasefire will start,” says Ramaekers. During that period, the real pain points of this war come to light. The absolute headache is what happens to the enriched uranium that Iran still has in its possession.
It is a nuclear ghost file that brings back memories of 2015. “Then, after two years of hard work, a historic agreement was concluded that, barely three years later, was resolutely dismissed by the same Donald Trump.”