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WASHINGTON. – US and Iranian negotiators have reached an agreement on a memorandum of understanding to extend the ceasefire by 60 days launch negotiations on Iran’s nuclear program, but President Donald Trump has yet to give his final approval, officials said yesterday.
The signing of the MOU would be the most significant diplomatic breakthrough since the war started, but a final agreement that tackles Trump’s nuclear demands would still require further intensive negotiations.
“This is an agreement to get everybody to the table. We will work out the details in the negotiations,” one of the US officials said
The MOU will include an Iranian commitment not to pursue a nuclear weapon, the officials said. It will also state that the first issues to be negotiated during the 60-day window will be how to dispose of Iran’s highly enriched uranium and how to address Iranian enrichment.
The US will commit to discuss sanctions relief and the release of frozen Iranian funds as part of the negotiations.
The MOU will also include a discussion of a mechanism to help Iran start receiving goods and humanitarian aid.
Meanwhile, Iran will not be pushed back from its red lines by Trump’s rhetoric, a senior lawmaker said in a post on X yesterday.
Ebrahim Azizi, chairman of the Iranian parliament’s national security and foreign policy committee, made the remarks a few hours after Trump, during a cabinet meeting at the White House, said the United States remains prepared to resume military action if ongoing negotiations with Iran fail to produce an agreement favoured by Washington.
Azizi listed Iran’s red lines as “the right to enrich uranium, possession of enriched uranium, authority over the Strait of Hormuz, and the removal of sanctions.”
“It is obvious Trump, seeking a way out of this strategic deadlock, alternates between issuing threats and appealing for an agreement,” he said.
In a brief phone interview with PBS News on Wednesday, Trump said Iran would not receive sanctions relief in exchange for giving up its stockpile of highly enriched uranium.
In the past weeks, the two sides reportedly exchanged several proposed plans outlining conditions for peace through Pakistani mediation. – Xinhua
