Scoop: Trump holds situation room meeting on Iran nuclear deal negotiations
![]() 881 Tuesday, 15 April, 2025, 23:57 President Trump held a meeting on Tuesday morning in the White House situation room about the ongoing nuclear deal negotiations with Iran, two sources with direct knowledge told Axios. Why it matters: The high-level meeting with all of the Trump administration's top national security and foreign policy officials present was focused on discussing the U.S. position in the next round of talks planned for Saturday, the sources said. Ahead of the meeting Trump spoke on the phone with the Sultan of Oman Haitham bin Tariq and discussed the Omani mediation between the U.S. and Iran. The meeting took place amid intense debate within the administration over the way forward in the negotiations and the compromises the U.S. should or shouldn't make. The White House declined to comment on the meeting. Leavitt told reporters that "the maximum pressure campaign on Iran continues but the president made it clear he wants to see dialogue and discussion with Iran while making clear Iran can't have a nuclear weapon." Trump threatened again to use military power against Iran. "If we have to do something very harsh we will do it," he said. Witkoff added that any nuclear deal would have to verify Iran's enrichment levels and that it doesn't build ballistic missiles that can deliver a nuclear weapon or build triggers that can detonate nuclear bombs. His remarks also contradicted what Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in his meeting with Trump last week about the need to fully dismantle Iran's nuclear program, like what he claimed happened in Libya in 2003. The other side: Iran's supreme leader Ali Khamenei said on Tuesday during a meeting with top government officials in Tehran that the first round of talks with the U.S. was "satisfactory." Khamenei said he is "neither too optimistic nor too pessimistic" about the negotiations and stressed he is "very skeptical of the other party, but confident in our own capabilities." The U.S., Iran and the Italian government confirmed it and visas have been issued for the Iranian delegation. |
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