Nuclear experts praise Trump’s team for walking away from talks in Pakistan with Iran

It’s true. The Trump negotiating team was right to walk away from the talks with the Islamic Republic of Iran. What no one seems to realize, however, is that there shouldn’t actually be any talks with the Islamic Republic of Iran. The Iranian leadership cannot be trusted to hold to the terms of any deal it concludes. It will never give up its jihad against Israel and the United States, because it believes that Allah has commanded that jihad. So what are negotiations accomplishing? All they do is buy time for Iran’s bloodthirsty Islamic regime, and help it to stay in power.

“President Trump’s negotiating team praised by nuclear experts for walking away from Pakistan talks,” by Benjamin Weinthal, Fox News, April 15, 2026:

With a second round of talks likely to take place between the U.S. and Iran’s regime this week over its illicit nuclear weapons programs, leading experts on Tehran’s program say the Trump administration was right to walk away.

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After nearly a day of talks, Vice President JD Vance’s team pulled the plug on the negotiations taking place in Pakistan, something welcomed by experts in the field.

“The U.S. team was wise to walk away once it became clear the Iranians would not agree to Washington’s core nuclear demands. Tehran maintaining enriched uranium stocks and uranium enrichment capabilities provides it with a pathway to nuclear weapons, plain and simple,” Andrea Stricker, deputy director of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies’ nonproliferation program, told Fox News Digital.

A core dispute between the U.S. and Iran is over Tehran’s desire to enrich uranium — the material used to build nuclear weapons.

In 2018, President Donald Trump withdrew from President Barack Obama’s nuclear weapons deal with Iran because his administration argued that the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, the formal name of the deal, permitted Iran to build an atomic bomb.

When asked what a good nuclear agreement would look like, Stricker said, “A good deal requires the regime to not only turn over its nuclear fuel, dismantle key facilities, and commit to a permanent ban on enrichment, but to cooperate with an IAEA investigation that fully and completely accounts for and dismantles Iran’s nuclear weapons-relevant facilities, equipment, documentation, centrifuges and related production capabilities.”

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Stricker acknowledged that the process could take several years, but noted that “the IAEA is well-equipped for this mission and has experience dismantling nuclear weapons programs in Iraq, Libya and South Africa. Anything less and Iran will likely cheat on its commitments and reconstitute a breakout pathway.”…