Iran has told the United States that it is ready to accept some limits on its uranium enrichment but needed watertight guarantees that President Donald Trump would not again ditch a nuclear pact.
DAILY POST reports that Iran and the United States are set to hold a second round of talks on Saturday in Rome, a week after a first round of negotiations in Oman which both sides described as positive.
The US president, who has reportedly restored a maximum pressure campaign on Tehran since February, ditched a 2015 nuclear pact between Iran and six world powers in 2018 during his first term and reimposed crippling sanctions on Iran.
Tehran, in the intervening years, is said to have steadily overstepped the 2015 agreement’s limits on its nuclear programme, designed to make it harder to develop an atomic bomb.
Immediate past US President Joe Biden, whose administration unsuccessfully tried to reinstate the 2015 pact, was not able to meet Tehran’s demand for guarantees that no future US administration would renege on it.
Tehran is said to have approached the talks warily, sceptical they could yield a deal and suspicious of Trump, who has repeatedly threatened to bomb Iran if it does not halt its accelerating uranium enrichment programme, which Iran says is peaceful.
While both Tehran and Washington have said they are set on pursuing diplomacy, they remain far apart on a dispute that has rumbled on for more than two decades.
Iran said on Friday that reaching a deal with the United States was possible if they demonstrate seriousness of intent and do not make unrealistic demands.
In a post on X on Tuesday, top US negotiator Steve Witkoff, said Iran must stop and eliminate its nuclear enrichment to reach a deal with Washington.
Meanwhile, Tehran has expressed its readiness to work with the UN nuclear agency, which it sees as the only acceptable body in this process, to provide assurances that its nuclear work is peaceful.
Iran seeks guarantees Trump won’t quit new nuclear pact
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