Iran praises us for limiting the financing of foreign aid because he is looking for a message of Trump about nuclear conversations

At the same time, Iranian officials seem to signal that they are waiting for a message from Trump about whether he wants to negotiate the rapidly developing Teheran nuclear program. The stakes are potentially billions of dollars deducted from Iran through crushing sanctions and the future of the program about the enriching uranium with class.

And even when signing an executive order in order to re -throw his “maximum pressure on Iran” Trump suggested that he wanted to deal with Tehran.

Meanwhile, ordinary Iranians are worried about what all this can mean for them.

“It encourages hard liners to continue repression because they believe that the US would have fewer possibilities of supporting Iran who are looking for freedom,” said Maryam Faraji, a 27-year-old waitress at a cafe in North Tehran.

The IRNA State Information Agency said that “limiting the budget of foreign opposition” can “affect the sphere of relations” between Tehran and Washington.

The newspapers, like the conservative Hamshhari Daily, described the opposition of Iran as a “counter -revolutionaries” who “celebrated” Trump’s election as “the last days of the life of the Islamic Republic.”

Then “suddenly they stood in the face of the surprise of the financing of their employer,” the newspaper interrupted.

Even the reformist newspaper Hammihan compared it with the “cold shower” for opponents of Iran’s theocracy abroad, an idea expressed by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

“These financial resources are not charity donations,” said Esmail Bagahei, spokesman for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Iran, during check -in with journalists on Monday. “These are wages paid in exchange for services.”

“This is a clear sign of the American interventionist policy, especially during Biden administration, which tried to put pressure on Iran and interfering into national affairs through financial assistance,” added Bagahei.

It is not clear how USAID’s decision would influence funds for Iranian activists and opposition data.

The participation of a lion for the civil society in Iran took place by the Regional Democracy Fund of the Middle East of the US, known by the acronym Nerd, which became an American reaction to the protests of green traffic in 2009.

According to the Congress of the Research Service in 2024, the Biden administration returned $ 65 million on Nerd after over $ 600 million was allocated. This money and other funds in the past came to the training of journalists and activists on reporting abuse of human rights, financing Internet access in connection with government switching and other problems.

The State Department did not answer the request to comment on Nerd financing and its future. American officials have been maintaining the secret Nerd grants for years because of what they describe as risk activists from Iran, especially after Iranian intelligence officers allegedly directed themselves to kidnapping or murder plots, prosecutors say.

Iran also noticed that the US avoided direct criticism of the Islamic Republic during a review of the UN Human Council meeting in Geneva last week. For people from Iran, it is expected that this may mean that Trump is willing to negotiate something that he has raised many times in his election campaign as an opportunity.

Even the highest leader of Iran, Ayatollah Ali Chamenei, who recently has a voice on all state matters, in the September speech opened the door to talks with the USA, saying that “there is no harm” in engaging with “enemy”. He recently softened this, warning that sinister plots could be “hidden behind diplomatic smiles.”

“We must be careful about who we are dealing with, who we negotiate and who we talk,” said Chamenei last week.

While Bagahei, a spokesman for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, decided that Iran has not yet seen any “green light” for conversations, Iran is trying to do everything in her power to signal that he wants them.

The reforming president of the country Masoud Pezeshkian, who ran a campaign to the West, called officials on Monday to hear the opposition of the Iranian nation and avoid further repression, such as those that occurred after the death of Mahsy Amini in 2022.

“The enemies hope that by mixing disputes in the country, they will throw people into the streets, and then a wave of protests rides independently,” said PezeShkian.

When he signed an executive order in Iran on Tuesday, Trump warned that the country would be “blurred” if he was murdered by Tehran. But he still left the door to the conversation.

“I intend to sign it, but I hope that we will not have to use it,” he said from the oval office. “We’ll see if we can organize or develop a contract with Iran.”

“We don’t want to be hard for Iran. We don’t want to be hard for anyone – added Trump. “But they just can’t have a nuclear bomb.”

However, factions in Iran’s theocracy can still oppose conversations, whether from his own interest or with anger, that Trump ordered a drone strike in 2020, who killed General Qass Soleimani, the most important general general and a venerable figure.

This murder fueled Iran calls to the murder of Trump – and alleged plots against him. In November, the Department of Justice revealed the Iranian murder conspiracy for renting to kill Trump. While Iran denied that he was involved, Tehran has a history of planning killing opponents abroad.

“This will not have any influence on factions that oppose conversations with the US, but maybe some moderately consider this to be an excuse to say that Trump is taking some steps,” said Iranian political analyst Ahmad Zeiabadi.

For now, however, a lot of it may seem to be the same as a supposition and theoretically for many over 80 million Iran people who are still fighting in the sick economy of the country.

A 27-year-old taxi driver in Tehran, 27-year-old Akbari, insisted that Iranians like him never benefit from the American support of Iranian pro-democracy abroad.

“We have not seen any result of the funds that the US paid foreign Iranian activists who comment only in the media,” said Akbari.