Overview
- On Tuesday Iran’s national security chief said no enriched uranium will be sent abroad and that any restart of talks with the United States depends on U.S. confidence‑building and Tehran’s conditions.
- President Trump said on Tuesday that only a final decision remains on how to end the conflict with Iran and reiterated that the U.S. is keeping military options available while pursuing diplomacy.
- U.S. envoy Steve Witkoff described talks with President Volodymyr Zelenskiy as positive before flying to St. Petersburg for a multi‑hour meeting with Vladimir Putin as Kyiv proposed freezing fighting along current front lines and joining any negotiations about its future.
- Fighting in the Red Sea and attacks by Yemen’s Houthi movement have driven Saudi requests for outside help and prompted Egypt to say any military support would be strictly defensive, while Iran warned against foreign intervention.
- The standoff leaves key sticking points unresolved — inspections, frozen assets and the fate of roughly 400 kg of highly enriched uranium proposed in diplomatic plans — and raises the risk that a U.S. decision on next steps will determine whether tensions ease or escalate.