Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian declared on Tuesday (3 February) that he had instructed Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi to pursue talks proposed by US President Donald Trump.

Asked by European Jewih Press about Friday’s talks between the US and Iran, Barak Seener, Associate Research Fellow at the Henry Jackson Society in London, said that "while Iran may make some concessions regarding its enrichment of uranium, it will not deny itself the future potential to continue developing a nuclear capability, which the Iranian regime sees as critical for its survivability".

"This certainly extends to the regime’s ballistic missile capabilities. As a result, the current choices are for the US and Israel to have a joint military operation to strike Iran’s nuclear and missile capabilities. The alternative is for Israel at a minimum to militarily strike at Iran’s ballistic missile program," he added.

For him, military intervention aimed at the Iranian regime collapse ‘’must be part of a multi-pronged strategy that includes covert action targeting regime command and control as well as targeting the IRGC and Basij, offering financial inducements and sanctuary abroad for regime officials to defect, a communications campaign to counter the regime’s disinformation and redefine Persian nationalism, increasing sanctions, coordinating the positions and activities of the Iranian opposition, and engaging with secessionist groups.’’

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