What to Know About the U.S. Strike on Iran and the Israel-Iran Cease-Fire
A shaky truce between Israel and Iran, announced after U.S. attacks on Iranian nuclear sites, appeared to be holding.
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A shaky truce between Israel and Iran, announced after U.S. attacks on Iranian nuclear sites, appeared to be holding.
The president now confronts the reality that stopping Iran’s drive toward a bomb may require letting it continue to make some nuclear fuel.
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said that abandoning uranium enrichment would be against Iran’s interests.
An outline by the Trump administration would allow Iran to continue enriching uranium at low levels while a broader arrangement is worked out that would block the country’s path to a nuclear weapon.
Iran rejects any deal that would ban it from any nuclear enrichment, long a demand of U.S. conservatives.
The two sides set an agenda for additional negotiations in the coming days, which could include technical details on uranium enrichment.
But Iran’s foreign minister said Tehran planned to participate “calmly and coolly” in the negotiations. Both sides will meet in Rome on Saturday for a second round, Iran’s Foreign Ministry said.
Top Iranian officials pressed the country’s leader to reverse his position, arguing that the risk of war with the United States and the worsening economic crisis could topple the regime.
Expected talks between Iran and the United States would be a late, and perhaps last, opportunity to control Tehran’s nuclear ambitions and avoid war.
Tehran neither rejected negotiations nor accepted face-to-face talks in its response to President Trump’s letter calling for talks to curb Iran’s advancing nuclear program. Here’s what to know.