After two wars in the space of a year, diplomacy over Iran ’s nuclear programme has come back to much the same place it was before the fighting began.
The memorandum of understanding signed by US President Donald Trump and his Iranian counterpart, Masoud Pezeshkian, on Wednesday sets up talks that non-proliferation experts said would largely resume the US-Iran diplomatic track Washington broke off in February.
That track had built on Oman-mediated talks – part of a wider Gulf diplomatic effort that also involved Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates – in which both sides had been discussing the outlines of a possible nuclear framework.
But this earlier diplomacy was overtaken last June by Israel’s 12-day air war against Iran, which expanded when the US struck Iran’s main enrichment sites and tunnel entrances used to store enriched uranium.
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The attacks badly damaged Iran’s enrichment capacity but did not resolve the central proliferation concern: the location, status and future disposition of its near-weapons-grade highly enriched uranium (HEU) stockpile.
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South China Morning PostParty-alignedCenter2 days agoFollowing two conflicts within a year, US-Iran nuclear diplomacy has returned to a position similar to where it was before the fighting began. A new memorandum of understanding between US President Donald Trump and Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian aims to restart talks that were previously halted. These discussions build on earlier Oman-mediated negotiations involving other Gulf states. However, recent military actions, including an Israeli air campaign and US strikes on Iran's enrichment facilities, have complicated efforts to address concerns about Iran's highly enriched uranium stockpile
Bias read (Center): The article provides a balanced overview of the situation without showing clear bias toward either side. It presents facts about the diplomatic process, military actions, and technical aspects of the nuclear program without evaluative language or emphasis on one perspective.
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