Witkoff: We're not going for another Obama-style Iran Deal

In an interview granted to Breitbart News, US Presidential Middle East Envoy Steve Witkoff stated unequivocally that they will not allow Iranian enrichment that can produce a nuclear bomb, nor will they agree to sunsets and sanctions lifting as Obama did in the JCPOA in 2015.

Witkoff said that the US is operating on the following assumptions: "“We’ve stated our position. The Iranians cannot have a bomb. They have stated back that they don’t want on. So we’re going to, for the purposes of this discussion, take them at their word that that’s actually how they feel. If that’s how they feel, then their enrichment facilities have to be dismantled…"

"An enrichment program can never exist in the state of Iran ever again. That’s our red line. No enrichment. That means dismantlement, it means no weaponization, and it means that Natanz, Fordow, and Isfahan—those are their three enrichment facilities—have to be dismantled.”

Witkoff also explained how the deal Trump is seeking is different than the JCPOA in key respects: "First of all, we’re never doing a JCPOA deal where sanctions come off and there’s no sunsetting of their obligations. That doesn’t make sense. That was a mismatched procedure in JCPOA.

"We believe that they cannot have enrichment, they cannot have centrifuges, they cannot have anything that allows them to build a weapon. We believe in all of that. That was not JCPOA. JCPOA had sunset provisions that burned off the obligations and burned off the sanctions relief at inappropriate times. It’s never going to happen in this deal."