Iran said it won’t be drawn into negotiations over its ability to enrich uranium in nuclear talks with the US, a sign that the tentative diplomatic push to resolve their standoff over Tehran’s atomic work may have already hit a major snag. Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said that he’d heard contradictory positions from his US counterpart in the talks, Steve Witkoff, since their first meeting in Oman last Saturday which he’d initially described as positive and constructive.
Witkoff clarified his position in a social media post and said that “a deal with Iran will only be completed if it is a Trump deal.” Witkoff said that means:
Iran “must stop and eliminate its nuclear enrichment and weaponization program.”