Iran
No deal required, Trump says of Iran's enriched uranium
U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday said that Washington did not need a deal with Iran to get enriched uranium from the country.
Iran's Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi said on Monday that Tehran was looking into U.S. President Donald Trump's request for negotiations, according to a post on the minister's Telegram account.
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi attends a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin at the Boris Yeltsin Presidential Library in Saint Petersburg, Russia April 27, 2026. Dmitri Lovetsky/Reuters
Iran's Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi said on Monday that Tehran was looking into U.S. President Donald Trump's request for negotiations, according to a post on the minister's Telegram account.
He told reporters in Russia that Trump requested negotiations because the U.S. has not achieved any of its objectives.
Trump scrapped a visit to Islamabad by his envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner for talks on ending the conflict, and said Iran could telephone if it wanted to negotiate.
Reporting by Menna Alaa El-Din
U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday said that Washington did not need a deal with Iran to get enriched uranium from the country.
In a striking political declaration, Fahad Al Masri, President of the National Salvation Front in Syria, has issued a bold call for a strategic alliance between post-Assad Syria, the United States and Israel, a move that would represent a seismic shift in the region's diplomatic landscape.
Hezbollah rejected a ceasefire plan agreed by the Lebanese and Israeli governments in U.S.-mediated talks, as Israel kept up strikes in southern Lebanon on Thursday and said it wouldn't be withdrawing from the south.
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