IN OSLO, WITKOFF PLANS TO MEET ARAGHCHI TO RESUME NUCLEAR NEGOTIATIONS.
Axios reported that White House envoy Steve Witkoff plans to meet with Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi in Oslo next week to resume nuclear talks.
Sources told the website, in a report published and translated by Shafaq News Agency, that no final date has yet been set, and neither country has publicly confirmed the meeting. However, if it takes place, it would be the first direct talks since US President Donald Trump ordered an unprecedented military strike on Iranian nuclear facilities last month .
A White House official told Axios, “We have no travel announcements at this time.” The Iranian mission to the United Nations declined to comment.
It is noteworthy that Witkoff and Araghchi were in direct contact during and after the 12-day war between Israel and Iran, which ended with a US-brokered ceasefire, according to the sources .
According to the website’s report, “The main issue in any future talks will be Iran’s stockpile of highly enriched uranium, which includes 400 kilograms of 60% enriched uranium.”
Israeli and US officials say the materials are “currently sealed off from the outside world” inside the three nuclear sites attacked during the joint strikes, and that Iran is currently unable to access the stockpile due to damage from the strikes, but that it could be recovered once the rubble is cleared .
Iran announced earlier this week that it had begun implementing a new law passed by parliament suspending all cooperation with the International Atomic Energy Agency .
Araghchi wrote on Thursday that Iran remains committed to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and its safeguards agreement .