President Trump’s special envoy Steve Witkoff has arrived in Rome for a second round of nuclear talks with representatives of the Iranian regime. President Trump is seeking a new deal to limit Tehran’s nuclear ambitions.
In his first term, President Trump withdraw the US from an Obama-era deal to limit Iran’s nuclear program. He reimposed sanctions on Tehran and called for a new framework to limit access to materials, especially enriched uranium, necessary for the manufacture of nuclear weapons.
With the failure of the Obama deal, Tehran returned to enriching and stockpiling uranium. According to a recent report from the UN’s International Atomic Energy Agency, Iran has stockpiles of around 600 pounds of 60%-enriched uranium. The country would require 90%-enriched uranium to produce weapons-grade material.
Since his return to the White House in January, President Trump has offered a new round of negotiations with Iran, but also threatened military action if the Iranian regime doesn’t accept new terms.
President Trump has said that Iran must not be allowed to develop nuclear weapons; however, he has been more indulgent of Iran than Israel and appears, for now, to have decided against military action. It was recently reported that President Trump put the cosh on Israeli plans to launch ambitious commando raids, with US aerial and logistics support, on Iranian nuclear facilities.
Iran’s foreign minister has said he expects Witkoff to lay out negotiating terms during the meeting in Rome today.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said Moscow will help facilitate continuing talks between Washington and Tehran.
“We are ready to help, to mediate, to play any role that will be valuable from Iran’s point of view and that will be acceptable to the United States,” Lavrov said on Friday.
Moscow has deepened its ties with Tehran since the invasion of Ukraine in 2022, in the face of international sanctions and isolation.
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