Iran never gives in to zero enrichment proposal
A US proposal on Iran’s nuclear program, drawn up by President Donald Trump’s special envoy Steve Witkoff and handed over by Omani Foreign Minister Badr al-Busaidi to his Iranian counterpart Abbas Araghchi on Saturday, is the first official draft Washington presented to Tehran since talks started in early April.
Araghchi wrote on X that the US proposal “will be appropriately responded to in line with the principles, national interests and rights of the people of Iran.”
According to sources cited by The New York Times and Axios, the document lays out a set of key points and conditions but stops short of being a full-fledged agreement. The most significant US demand is a complete halt to uranium enrichment in Iran. The proposal also floats the idea of setting up a regional consortium for producing nuclear materials, with members including Iran, Saudi Arabia, other Arab states, and the US.
American officials say their aim is to hammer out a basic agreement that would set out the principles of a nuclear deal. Should such a deal be reached, technical teams from both sides would dig into the details. White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt, while saying that the proposal was “detailed and acceptable,” added that “it would be in Iran’s “best interest to accept it.
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