Qatar PM to meet Trump: What’s the latest on US-Iran negotiations?

Iran offered the US a new nuclear and peace proposal via Qatari mediators on Thursday, to be discussed only after Washington meets Tehran’s seven demands. The US is examining the proposal. Iran has been unwilling to hold negotiations over its atomic activities with the Trump administration until the latter agrees to several core conditions that Tehran has been demanding be part of any ceasefire agreement.

Tehran has long maintained that its nuclear programme is peaceful. According to the International Atomic Energy Agency, Iran has 440.9kg (972 pounds) of uranium that is enriched up to 60 percent purity, a short, technical step from weapons-grade levels of 90 percent. Iran’s enrichment boost came after Trump withdrew from the nuclear deal in 2018.

Signed under President Barack Obama, the deal had capped enrichment at below 3.67 percent. Speaking to Al Jazeera last month, Araghchi said Tehran’s two-day proposal was developed with Qatari mediators and based on the seven-day plan Iran announced at the UN General Assembly in September. “On day one, the US implements a set of measures.