Witkoff: Agreement With Iran a Top Priority of Trump’s Foreign Policy

Tehran - BORNA - Witkoff, who serves as Trump’s senior negotiator on Middle East affairs, has told foreign counterparts that the administration’s top objectives include “ending the war in Gaza, ending the war between Russia and Ukraine, and achieving a new nuclear agreement with Iran.”

Politico quoted a source close to Trump’s national security team as saying that officials consider ending the Gaza war to be “the easiest” of the three goals, while emphasizing that the administration does not intend to “abandon” the other objectives, believing that “success in one area will pave the way for others.”

These remarks come following the agreement reached between Hamas and Israel under Trump’s proposed Gaza peace plan. The U.S. president announced the end of the Gaza war in an address to the Israeli Knesset on October 13.

Under the deal, Israeli forces withdrew from parts of the Gaza Strip, Hamas exchanged Israeli captives for Palestinian prisoners held in Israeli jails, and humanitarian aid to the besieged enclave was resumed.

During his recent trip to West Asia, Trump also claimed he was “ready for peace with Iran” and appointed his son-in-law Jared Kushner to lead efforts toward what he described as an “Iran peace agreement.”

In response, Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi questioned Trump’s credibility, citing the U.S. airstrikes on Iran’s nuclear facilities in June. “How can the Iranian nation trust a peace offering from someone who, only four months ago, was involved in bombing homes and cities across Iran?” Araghchi said.

The Iranian foreign minister added that those “criminal attacks” killed more than a thousand Iranians, including women and children. “It is difficult to call someone a president of peace when he fuels endless wars and stands beside war criminals. Mr. Trump can either be a president of peace or a president of war — he cannot be both,” Araghchi concluded.

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