Iran wants guarantees Trump will not quit a new nuclear pact, official says

Iran told the United States in talks last week it was ready to accept some limits on its uranium enrichment but needed watertight guarantees that US President Donald Trump would not again ditch a nuclear pact, a senior Iranian official says.

Iran and the United States are set to hold a second round of talks on Saturday in Rome, a week after a first round of negotiations in Oman, which both sides described as positive.

Trump, who has restored a “maximum pressure” campaign on Tehran since February, ditched a 2015 nuclear pact between Iran and six world powers in 2018 during his first term and reimposed crippling sanctions on Iran. In the intervening years, Tehran has steadily overstepped the 2015 agreement’s limits on its nuclear program, designed to make it harder to develop an atomic bomb.