“Trump Says U.S., Iran Close to Nuclear Deal,” WSJ, 5-15-25.  “Trump cited a story published Thursday setting out Iran’s position on the talks.   …  an NBC interview with Ali Shamkhani, a top adviser to Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. In the interview, Shamkhani said that Tehran was ready to make concessions to secure a nuclear deal with Washington. However, he didn’t signal any change in Iran’s most important red line—an insistence that Tehran is able to continue enriching uranium. Trump and other top officials have said Iran shouldn’t have an enrichment program under a new nuclear deal. Shamkhani said Iran would commit to never making nuclear weapons, scrap its stockpile of highly enriched, near weapons-grade uranium and agree to enrich uranium only at low levels of purity needed for a civilian peaceful program.”  And the U.S. would offer great sanctions relief.

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