“Our Supreme Leader has already stated that we will not have nuclear weapons at all,” President Pezeshkian said, in a reference to Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. While Iran has insisted the talks focus solely on its nuclear programme, the US wants Tehran’s missile programme and its support for militant groups in the region curtailed. In his State of the Union address on Tuesday, Trump accused Iran of “pursuing sinister nuclear ambitions”, though Tehran has consistently insisted its programme is for civilian purposes. “You can’t let the craziest and worst regime in the world have nuclear weapons,” Vance told “America’s Newsroom” on Fox News. A previous attempt at negotiations collapsed when Israel launched surprise strikes on Iran last June, beginning a 12-day war that Washington briefly joined to bomb Iranian nuclear sites.

Source: Punch February 26, 2026 08:43 UTC