Trump’s Secret Iran Peace Talks: Waiting on Tehran Like It’s Uber Eats
KEY POINTS
- •Trump’s administration is negotiating possible Iran peace talks this week, pending Tehran’s response.
- •Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff told Trump Iran agreed to several key disarmament points, but verification is unclear.
- •Israel is worried a deal will not meet their goals and that the U.S. may settle prematurely.
In the latest episode of “Is This Real?”, Trump’s team is cooking up high-stakes peace talks with Iran, ideally by Thursday, but they’re still waiting for Tehran to RSVP like it’s a dodgy party invite. Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff, Trump’s dynamic (and apparently ultra-secret) duo, claim Iran agreed to ditch its 450kg of 60%-enriched uranium—which is basically letting go of a supercharged radioactive cookie stash. Israel's nervous Netanyahu fears a deal that under-delivers and hampers their retaliatory options, dubbing U.S. concessions as maybe too juicy to be true. Meanwhile, Pakistan, Egypt, and Turkey serve as the middlemen, offering to host peace talks, as if the Middle East just needs a fancy Airbnb for problems to solve themselves. VP Vance is on standby but unsure if the summit is more than fictional fan fiction. With Iran's Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei’s whereabouts as hazy as a season finale cliffhanger, and the 82nd Airborne already itching to deploy, America is simultaneously testing diplomacy while prepping to bomb first, talk later. Karoline Leavitt spells it out: diplomacy is ‘newfound’ but ‘Operation Epic Fury’ rages on like an 80s action movie sequel no one asked for.
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(1 of 3)Source: Axios | Published: 3/24/2026 | Author: Barak Ravid