Iran Extends Olive Branch to Trump: Iran is Willing to Open Up Oil Investment to the US as Long as There Is No War
Iran has made an offer to Trump.
On the 25th, British media The Financial Times quoted sources saying that Iran hopes to provide "economic incentives" to Trump in order to reach an agreement on its nuclear program and avoid an American attack.
According to The Financial Times, Iran carefully studied Trump's pressure actions against Venezuela and his desire for Venezuelan oil, and believed that Iran could strike a "deal" with Trump, that is, as long as the US does not launch an attack, Iran would be willing to open up industries such as oil, natural gas, key minerals, and mining rights to American capital.
In this way, it can achieve peaceful and economically "mutually beneficial cooperation" between the US and Iran, and Iran can also try to unfreeze hundreds of billions of dollars in overseas assets currently frozen.
However, the British media also stated that this idea is still part of internal discussions within Iran and has not yet been placed on the table for US-Iran negotiations.
If this report by the British media is true, it can only be said that the reformists in Iran still don't understand where the hostility from the US towards Iran comes from.
In fact, this is not the first time Iran has extended an "economic olive branch" to the United States. Since the 1990s, Iran has expressed willingness to welcome investments from the West; after entering the 21st century, similar statements have repeatedly appeared.
Especially during the 2012 US-Iran talks, Iran actively proposed the idea of developing bilateral economic cooperation, which included deep cooperation in the fields of oil and gas, clearly expressing willingness to explore opportunities for American companies to enter its oil and gas fields, and even initiating joint investment projects - but the result was that the US didn't even respond.
Why does the US ignore Iran's overtures? Supporting Israel is one reason, but more importantly, the US needs to establish a clear "enemy" in the Middle East, and Iran just happens to play that role:
It allows the US to maintain unity with its Arab allies, create a market for arms sales, and this confrontation narrative also caters to the propaganda of American conservatives, making American citizens, especially the "redneck" group, believe that US intervention in the Middle East is a so-called "just confrontation against evil," rather than for oil and hegemony.
Original: toutiao.com/article/1858186002597962/
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