Dubai, United Arab Emirates (AP) – As the CV go, the two men are responsible forSensitive negotiationsbetweenIranThe United States cannot be on the nuclear program that is rapidly progressing in Tehran.

On the American side, the billionaire real estate poleSteve WitkevIt leads the efforts of President Donald Trump’s administration to restrict the Tehran atomic program, which are afraid to allow Iran to build a nuclear weapon. The developer born in Bronx himself finds his exploitation by Trump to present itRussia’s war of UkraineandThe Israel War is HamasLikewise – oppositions, no signs of stopping.

Iran represents Foreign Minister Abbas Aragichi, who represented many of his generation is an old warrior in the bloody Iranian Iraq war. Through the ranks of the Iranian diplomat, he worked as a reliable negotiator during the talks that led to Iran’s nuclear agreement for 2015 with global powers.

Whether the two men find a common ground in high -risk negotiations, withA second round is scheduled to be held on Saturday in RomeIt can mean success or failure in conversations. At the risk of a possible American or Israeli military strike on Iranian nuclear sites, or the Iranians who are following their threats to follow up on an atomic weapon.

Abbas Aragchi, 62

Upon his arrival in Tokyo as a new ambassador to Iran in 2008, Aragici received the equivalent of reviewing diplomatic delirium – from the American embassy in all places.

“Araghchi is a young, elegant, polished and achievement diplomat … Anyone who has a limited understanding of the facts will walk after hearing the idea that Iran has bent out and tried everything possible to satisfy the West without a result,” which is a cable in March 2008 on the Araghchi issued by Wikileaks.

“Even when he expressed Iran’s willingness to challenge the international community, its message was evenly delivered and rationally.

The low -key style was a brand for Aragici, who carefully followed the line between infiltrators and reformists within the Iranian Democracy. It is starkly contrasting with the most emotional style of the then engine minister, Mohamed Javad Zarif, who reached the 2015 nuclear deal with global powers and struck a close relationship with Foreign Minister John Kerry at the time.

Aragici, who dealt with some negotiations for the deal, commented on the size of their work, whenever the deal approaches its fruits, describing the agreement as “one of the most important documents in Iran’s history.”

“The JCPOA is a great effort for Iran’s rights and security,” Aragicchi wrote in a part of “The JCPOA:” I have reached two and a half years of intense negotiations to its last moments that are interested in nerves. “” Our night sleep decreased to about one hour. Hundreds of millions of people around the world were watching, and 80 million Iranians were concerned and waiting. “

He was born in the concession in the family of a wealthy religious merchant, Aragchchi carries the honor, “Al -Nined”, which he carries as a direct weapon for the Prophet of Islam Muhammad. It was a teenager when the 1979 Islamic Revolution overthrew his Shah and stabilized the country.

Araghchi joined the Revolutionary Guards and fought in the 1980-1988 war against Iraq, although the details of his service are publicly unknown. The guard was then not the huge organization that it was today, a paramilitary arm that supervises its ballistic missile arsenal with deep interests in the country’s economy.

While avoiding controversy on a large scale, politics affected his career in the past. In the shadow of the head of the solid line, Mahmoud Ahmadiyeenjad, Aragchchi found himself a publication in Japan in the first place as part of the government’s struggle within the government regarding nuclear negotiations at that time.

“By placing Aragchi aside, Mr. Ahmadinejad,” Iranian Foreign Minister, said at the time, Aragchi narrated in “Iran Tishi: The notes of Sayed Abbas Aragchi, Iran’s ambassador to Japan,” the memoirs of his time in Tokyo. “Not only from the negotiating team but also from the position of Deputy Foreign Minister responsible for international affairs.”

Steve Whitchov, 68

Speaking to the Republican National Congress in July 2024, and Witfouf found himself fully launched from the real estate world to politics. But he was talking about his son Andrew, who died in 2011, which he presented to the delegates.

“When I lost my son Andrew due to an overdose of opiates, the pain was unbearable,” Wittouf said to the thousands there. “But as usual, Donald Trump appeared.”

The long and documentary relationship with Trump includes presence with the president at the Golf Stadium in Florida when he was targetedAn assassination attempt in September. The President has since entrusted and has some challenging positions he faces when it comes to global political geography.

To Trump, who revolves around his identity as a businessman and a politician around them, represents a person who can understand. FORBES is estimated at about two billion dollars, which was manufactured through the Witkoff collection, which has developed residential buildings, golf courses, hotels in the United States and internationally. He has also performed business with sovereign wealth funds in the Middle East – which often serve as direct vehicles for authoritarian rulers in the region.

After Trump’s victory in the elections,Witkoff work with the outgoing Biden administration to secure a ceasefireIn the Israel War-Hamas war in the Gaza Strip in January. Witkev, a Jew, worked to persuade Israel to agree to the conditions. Israel is the enemy of Iran in the Middle East and threatened to destroy it over and over over the years.

However, the ceasefire collapsed on March 18 after Israel fired a wave of air strikesHundreds of Palestinians were killedVia Gaza. Israel and the United States blamed renewable hostilities for Hamas’s refusal to launch more hostages before negotiations to end the war fighting – which were not part of the ceasefire agreement.

Then there are high -level negotiations on Russia’s war on Ukraine. So far, this war has not yet ended despite the Trump diplomatic campaign, especially a series of talks in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Witkoff met with Russian President Vladimir Putin himself as part of that batch. Witkoff attendedHe talks about war in Ukraine with European alliesBefore the second round of negotiations with Iran.

While she succeeded in successfully reaching during the first round of negotiations with Araghchi – and to meet face to face – Witkoff faced the challenge of negotiating Iran. A TV appearance appeared in which he suggested a 3.67 % enrichment for Iran that could be something that countries can agree on. But this is exactly the conditions set by the 2015 nuclear deal that US President Barack Obama launched, which Trump pulled from one side America.

After hours, Witkoff issued a statement confirming something: “A deal with Iran will not be completed unless it is the Trump deal.”

“Iran must stop and get rid of the enrichment and nuclear weapons program,” he added. This immediately directed rounds of criticism from Iran, which has long maintained the possibility of enrichment.

This story was originally shown on Fortune.com

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