{"id":2421702,"date":"2025-04-09T15:27:01","date_gmt":"2025-04-09T19:27:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/iran-tells-us-to-come-and-invest-promises-regime-not-seeking-nuclear-bomb-washington-examiner\/"},"modified":"2025-04-09T15:31:22","modified_gmt":"2025-04-09T19:31:22","slug":"iran-tells-us-to-come-and-invest-promises-regime-not-seeking-nuclear-bomb-washington-examiner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/iran-tells-us-to-come-and-invest-promises-regime-not-seeking-nuclear-bomb-washington-examiner\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran tells US to &#8216;come and invest,&#8217; promises regime not seeking nuclear bomb- Washington Examiner"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Firan-tells-us-to-come-and-invest-promises-regime-not-seeking-nuclear-bomb-washington-examiner%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2421702&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian recently emphasized that Iran is not pursuing a nuclear bomb and expressed frustration over the ongoing concerns about its nuclear program during a speech in Tehran.As negotiations with the United States are set to begin in Oman, he invited American investors to consider opportunities in Iran, claiming that the Iranian goverment is open to foreign investment. Foreign Minister Seyed Abbas Araghchi reiterated that Iran has complied with its nuclear commitments, asserting that U.S. intelligence supports this claim. He criticized U.S. sanctions as obstacles to business relations,aligning with Pezeshkian\u2019s message of economic openness. The impending discussions are described as a notable test for U.S. diplomatic strategies,especially amid differing expectations regarding nuclear disarmament and the style of negotiations. The U.S. seeks a complete halt to Iran&#8217;s nuclear activities, amid threats of military intervention, contrasting with Iran&#8217;s call for a more reconciliatory approach. The negotiations are likely to <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\">reveal deeper diplomatic tensions<\/a> as both parties enter with distinctly divergent agendas.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">Iran tells US to &lsquo;come and invest,&rsquo; promises regime not seeking nuclear bomb<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_2085566\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/iran\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Iran<\/a> is putting on a friendly face as it prepares for negotiations with the United States regarding the future of its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/world\/3348475\/russia-china-rally-iran-nuclear-program\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/iranian-dissidents-slam-nominee-for-top-defense-post\/\" title=\"...ian Dissidents Slam Nominee for Top Defense Post\">nuclear enrichment program<\/a><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian stressed Wednesday during an address in Tehran that his country is &ldquo;not after a nuclear bomb&rdquo; and expressed frustration that the issue continues to plague bilateral relations.<\/p>\n<div class=\"recommended-stories\">\n<h2>Recommended Stories<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/world\/3374988\/trump-jr-romania-presidential-election-calin-gorgescu-disqualification\/\">Trump Jr. visiting Romania ahead of delayed presidential election following Calin Gorgescu disqualification<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/world\/3374803\/afd-becomes-most-popular-party-germany-first-time\/\">AfD becomes most popular party in Germany for first time<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/world\/3374879\/eu-approves-25-percent-retaliatory-tariffs\/\">EU approves 25% retaliatory tariffs against the US<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p>&ldquo;[Western nations] have verified it 100 times,&rdquo; Pezeshkian said. &ldquo;Do it 1,000 times again.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">In this photo released by the Iranian Presidency Office, President Masoud Pezeshkian speaks during a rally commemorating the anniversary of the 1979 Islamic Revolution that toppled the late pro-U.S. Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi and brought Islamic clerics to power, in Tehran, Iran, Monday, Feb. 10, 2025. (Iranian Presidency Office via AP, file)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Iranian Minister of Foreign Affairs Seyed Abbas Araghchi, who wrote on social media this week that the negotiations in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/oman\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Oman<\/a> are &ldquo;as much an opportunity as it is a test&rdquo; for the White House, expressed the same complaint in a Washington Post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/miles-anonymous-taylor-accidentally-exposes-the-fraudulence-of-the-mainstream-media\/\" title=\"Miles &#039;Anonymous&#039; Taylor Accidentally Exposes the Fraudulence of the Mainstream Media\">op-ed<\/a> published Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Ten years after the [2015 nuclear deal] was concluded &mdash; and nearly seven years after the United States unilaterally walked away from it &mdash; there is no evidence that Iran has violated this commitment,&rdquo; the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ukraine-foreign-minister-blasts-biden-administrations-move-to-evacuate-some-embassy-personnel\/\" title=\"Ukraine Foreign Minister Blasts Biden Administration\u2019s Move To Evacuate Some Embassy Personnel\">foreign minister wrote<\/a>. &ldquo;This has been reaffirmed by U.S. intelligence assessments time and again.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>As evidence, Araghchi pointed to Director of National Intelligence <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/tulsi-gabbard\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Tulsi Gabbard<\/a>, who last month testified to the Senate Intelligence Committee that U.S. intelligence &ldquo;continues to assess that Iran is not building a nuclear weapon and Supreme Leader Khamenei has not authorized the nuclear weapons program he suspended in 2003.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The Iranian government is not only emphasizing that they are not seeking to produce a nuclear weapon but throwing out the idea of U.S. investment in its country as a possible sweetener for a mutually satisfying deal.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;[Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei] has no opposition to investment by American investors in Iran,&rdquo; said Pezeshkian on Wednesday. &ldquo;American investors &mdash; come and invest.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>On this point, too, the foreign minister&rsquo;s rhetoric is in lock-step, claiming in his op-ed that it is U.S. officials inhibiting economic cooperation, not <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/tehran\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Tehran<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Many in Washington portray Iran as a closed country from an economic point of view. The truth is that we are open to welcoming businesses from around the world,&rdquo; Araghchi wrote. &ldquo;It is the U.S. administrations and congressional impediments, not Iran, that have kept American enterprises away from the trillion-dollar opportunity that access to our economy represents.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/world\/3373879\/witkoff-meet-iran-foreign-minister-nuclear-program\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">negotiations in Oman<\/a> this weekend will be a crucial test of the White House&rsquo;s negotiating prowess as both sides enter with drastically different visions for the future of Iran.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S., in cooperation with Israel, is seeking a total shutdown of Iranian nuclear facilities, with the threat of military intervention looming behind its demands.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi speaks in a joint press conference with his Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov in Tehran, Iran, Tuesday, Feb. 25, 2025. (AP Photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/benjamin-netanyahu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu<\/a> made this abundantly clear in an address given the day after his meeting with Trump at the White House on Monday. He expressed optimism for a new Iranian nuclear deal being struck through diplomacy but clarified it would need to mirror the disarmament of Libya in 2003.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We agree that Iran must not be allowed to possess nuclear weapons,&rdquo; the prime minister said. &ldquo;This can be achieved through an agreement &mdash; but only if it is a Libya-style agreement, one where the facilities are entered, dismantled, and destroyed under American supervision and execution &mdash; that&rsquo;s good.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/world\/3373879\/witkoff-meet-iran-foreign-minister-nuclear-program\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">WITKOFF TO MEET IRAN FOREIGN MINISTER, USE MEDIATORS TO TALK ABOUT NUCLEAR PROGRAM<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;In that case, the option is military,&rdquo; Netanyahu added. &ldquo;Everyone understands that. We discussed this at length.&rdquo;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The first feud of the negotiations might be the nature and style of the talks themselves.<\/p>\n<p>Iranian officials say that the &ldquo;indirect&rdquo; negotiations in Oman will be carried out with mediators communicating American and Iranian positions between envoys without the two sides meeting.<\/p>\n<p>The White House has sent completely opposite signals. Trump <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/foreign-policy\/3372785\/trump-direct-talks-iran-nuclear-program-begin\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">announced on Monday<\/a> that the &ldquo;very big meeting&rdquo; will consist of &ldquo;direct talks.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon, and if the talks aren&rsquo;t successful, I actually think it will be a very bad day for Iran,&rdquo; the president warned the same day from the Oval Office.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <script data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/cdn-cgi\/scripts\/5c5dd728\/cloudflare-static\/email-decode.min.js\"><\/script><script>!function(){var g=window;g.googletag=g.googletag||{},g.googletag.cmd=g.googletag.cmd||[],g.googletag.cmd.push(function(){g.googletag.pubads().setTargeting(\"has-featured-video\",\"true\")})}();<\/script><script>var _bp=_bp||[];_bp.push({\"div\":\"Brid_2085566\",\"obj\":{\"id\":\"27789\",\"width\":\"1280\",\"height\":\"720\",\"stickyDirection\":\"below\",\"video\":\"2085566\"}});<\/script><script defer src=\"https:\/\/services.brid.tv\/player\/build\/brid.min.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iran invites US investment, insists it doesn&#8217;t seek nuclear weapons<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3468,"featured_media":2421703,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/AP25089401661678.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33651,538],"tags":[9177,3823,38891,47500],"class_list":["post-2421702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-western-journal","category-washington-examiner","tag-investment","tag-iran","tag-nuclear-policy","tag-us-relations"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/AP25089401661678.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2421702","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3468"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2421702"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2421702\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2421707,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2421702\/revisions\/2421707"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2421703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2421702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2421702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2421702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}