US President Donald Trump claimed Tuesday that his administration was “talking to the right people” in Iran, adding that the Islamic Republic “wants to make a deal so badly” to end the ongoing war.

“We’re in negotiations right now… We have a number of people doing it,” Trump told reporters in the Oval Office, referring to his negotiators Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff, along with Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Vice President JD Vance.

Despite the talk of diplomacy, the Pentagon is expected to send thousands of troops from the elite 82nd Airborne Division to the Middle East, two people familiar with the matter told Reuters.

The officials, speaking on the condition of anonymity, did not specify where in the Middle East the troops would be sent or when they would arrive in the region.

Israel’s Channel 12 reported Tuesday that the Trump administration has conveyed 15 conditions to Iran as its terms for ending the current war. The Haaretz newspaper echoed some of that reporting.

The conditions appeared to cover all of the United States’ and Israel’s war goals, the TV report indicated.

Nonetheless, it said, Jerusalem is concerned that Trump and his team want to push quickly for “a framework agreement, an agreement in principle” with Iran, rather than insisting on these demands as a condition for halting the war.

The report, citing three sources familiar with the details, said Kushner and Witkoff have shaped a process involving “the declaration of a monthlong ceasefire period, during which the sides would negotiate a 15-point agreement.”

The framework is reminiscent of previous Trump administration-brokered agreements with Hamas in Gaza and with Lebanon.

“The scenario of a rapid, ambiguous agreement in principle is giving Israel’s political and security leaders sleepless nights,” Channel 12 reported, because it risks a situation in which the Iranians would essentially have emerged with the upper hand, with the conflict ending before the precise terms are agreed.

The report specified 14 of the 15 demands and benefits that the US has conveyed to Iran as follows, citing a Western source:

1. Iran must dismantle its existing nuclear capabilities.

2. Iran must commit never to pursue nuclear weapons.

3. There will be no uranium enrichment on Iranian territory.

4. Iran must hand its stockpile of some 450 kilograms of uranium enriched to 60 percent to the International Atomic Energy Agency in the near future, in a timetable to be agreed.

5. The Natanz, Isfahan and Fordo nuclear facilities must be dismantled.

6. The IAEA, the UN’s nuclear watchdog, must be granted full........

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