Tehran to offer nuclear assurances

Iran’s uranium enrichment activities are entirely peaceful, Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi has insisted.

Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi has said Iran will give assurances regarding the peaceful nature its nuclear program, as US President Donald Trump pushes for the country to entirely dismantle its enrichment capability.

In March, Trump reportedly gave Iran a two-month deadline to make a nuclear deal with the US, threatening “bombing” if it does not accept. Washington recently set out its terms in a letter, following five rounds of Oman-brokered negotiations between the two nations.

“We are ready to give assurances to all sides about peaceful nature of our nuclear program,” Araghchi, Tehran’s top negotiator in the nuclear talks with the US, said at a press conference in Egypt on Monday.

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said on Sunday that US Special Envoy to the Middle East Steve Witkoff “has sent a detailed and acceptable proposal” to Iran, adding that “it’s in their best interest to accept.” She reiterated Trump’s position that “Iran can never obtain a nuclear bomb.”