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Iran has agreed not to stockpile enriched uranium, Oman's foreign minister said on Friday, describing the move as a major development in negotiations with the United States, AFP reports.
“It's something completely new, which makes the (uranium) enrichment argument much less relevant, because now we're talking about the absence of stockpiling,” Oman's foreign minister, Badr Albusaidi, told CBS.
Oman, which acts as a mediator between the United States and Iran, sent its foreign minister to Washington on Friday for talks on the issue with US Vice President JD Vance, according to a source cited by Reuters.
In fact, Foreign Minister Badr Albusaidi is the one who mediated the indirect talks between American emissaries Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner with Iran's envoy, Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi, in Geneva on Thursday.
Trump “not happy” with negotiations with Iran
The announcement by the Omani mediator comes amid rising tensions in the Middle East, where the threat of US strikes against Iran continues to loom.
On Friday, US President Donald Trump said he was not happy with how negotiations with Iran over its nuclear program are going. Trump said he still wanted to reach a deal with Tehran, but warned that “sometimes you have to use force” militarily.
The US has long suspected Iran of pursuing a nuclear bomb and wants it to completely abandon uranium enrichment, a process used to make fuel for nuclear power plants but which can also provide material to make a nuclear warhead.
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