A senior Iranian official told Reuters that Iran agrees to maintain the nuclear status quo — no uranium enrichment or expansion of nuclear facilities — until a final deal is reached, according to Israeli media reports citing the agency. The U.S. has reportedly agreed not to impose new sanctions on Iran during the negotiation period. The terms mark a potential cooling of the nuclear standoff as talks proceed.
A senior Iranian official has told Reuters that Tehran has agreed to freeze its nuclear program at current levels — ceasing uranium enrichment and refraining from expanding nuclear facilities — until a final agreement is reached with the United States. In exchange, the U.S. has agreed not to impose new sanctions on Iran during the negotiation period, according to the official.
The report, relayed by N12's diplomatic desk, adds a concrete temporal framework to what had previously been a more ambiguous set of commitments. As The Zioneer reported in a series of bulletins over the past week, the emerging US-Iran nuclear memorandum of understanding has been the subject of widely divergent characterizations: Iranian spokesmen have stressed that the MoU does not address the nuclear issue at its core, while senior U.S. officials have insisted that no funds will be released until Iran fulfills its commitments. The current statement appears to narrow the gap by specifying a mutual freeze — a status quo arrangement.
Notably, the predecessor bulletins in the SAME-THREAD (from today's earlier coverage of a senior Iranian official's remarks to Reuters) did not specify the enrichment freeze, only a commitment not to produce or purchase nuclear weapons. This report adds the more specific operational restriction: no enrichment and no facility expansion. The claim remains a single-source diplomatic leak — a senior official speaking on condition — and no timeline for the freeze was provided. The U.S. side has not yet publicly confirmed the terms, though American officials had previously signaled a willingness to freeze new sanctions while talks are active. What remains open: whether the freeze applies to Iran's stockpile of 60% enriched near-weapons-grade material, and how verification would work under a temporary arrangement that lacks the inspection regime of the full JCPOA.
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