Iran says Oman introduced components of US nuclear deal proposal
Iran’s International Minister Abbas Araqchi mentioned his Omani counterpart introduced components of a US proposal for a nuclear deal between Tehran and Washington throughout a brief go to to Tehran on Saturday.
White Home press secretary Karoline Leavitt mentioned afterward Saturday that US President Donald Trump’s particular envoy Steve Witkoff “has despatched an in depth and acceptable proposal to the Iranian regime, and it is of their finest curiosity to just accept it.”
Araqchi mentioned in a put up on X that Iran “will reply to the US proposal according to the rules, nationwide pursuits and rights of individuals of Iran”.
His assertion got here forward of an anticipated sixth spherical of talks between Washington and Tehran to resolve a decades-long dispute over Iran’s nuclear programme. The date and venue of the talks haven’t been introduced but.
“President Trump has made it clear that Iran can by no means get hold of a nuclear bomb,'” Leavitt mentioned in an announcement, confirming that the US proposal had been communicated to Iran. She declined to offer additional particulars.
Trump mentioned on Friday that an Iran deal was potential within the “not-too-distant future.”
Earlier within the week, Trump instructed reporters he had lately warned Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to not take actions that would disrupt nuclear talks with Iran. These feedback appeared to sign US concern that Israel may strike Iran’s nuclear services whereas US diplomatic efforts had been below manner.
Trump himself has repeatedly threatened to bomb Iran’s nuclear services if diplomacy fails to realize a deal.
One of many important sticking factors within the talks between US and Iranian officers has been US insistence that Iran quit its nuclear enrichment services, a requirement Iran rejects.
Trump, who has restored a “most strain” marketing campaign on Tehran since February, ditched a 2015 nuclear pact between Iran and 6 world powers in 2018 throughout his first time period and reimposed crippling sanctions on Iran.
Within the intervening years, Tehran has steadily overstepped the 2015 settlement’s limits on its nuclear programme, designed to make it more durable to develop an atomic bomb. Tehran denies it’s searching for a nuclear weapon.
