U.S. special presidential envoy Steve Witkoff arrived in Rome on April 19 for a second round of talks with Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi, as U.S. President Donald Trump seeks a new deal to curb Tehran’s nuclear ambitions.
During his first term in office, Trump withdrew the United States from a 2015 deal to limit Iran’s nuclear development, reimposed sanctions, and called for a new framework to prevent Tehran from obtaining a nuclear weapon. Tehran, in turn, has backed away from its commitments under the 2015 deal to cap its uranium stockpiles and limit uranium enrichment to 3.67 percent purity.
In a February report, the U.N.’s International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) concluded that Iran has stockpiled about 605 pounds of 60-percent enriched uranium. Iran would need to enrich uranium to 90 percent to achieve weapons-grade fissile material….