Overview

• Oman’s mediator presented two compromise plans—a six-month suspension of uranium enrichment and a regional oversight consortium—but Iran declined both options.
• The United States maintains that Iran must fully halt enrichment activities to secure the lifting of its toughest economic sanctions.
• Iranian negotiators led by Abbas Araghchi insist enrichment is a sovereign right and characterize any pause demand as unacceptable.
• Tehran has raised uranium purity to 60 percent, a level that brings it close to weapons-grade material and intensifies global nonproliferation concerns.
• European powers warn they will reimpose U.N. sanctions by the end of June without a deal, and President Trump has urged Israel to hold off on strikes to allow more diplomatic time.