{"id":60884,"date":"2026-02-22T17:40:56","date_gmt":"2026-02-22T14:40:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/?p=60884"},"modified":"2026-02-22T17:40:56","modified_gmt":"2026-02-22T14:40:56","slug":"senior-iranian-official-new-talks-with-us-planned-in-early-march-interim-deal-possible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/22\/senior-iranian-official-new-talks-with-us-planned-in-early-march-interim-deal-possible\/","title":{"rendered":"Senior Iranian Official: New Talks with US Planned in Early March, Interim Deal Possible"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Iran and the United States have differing views over the scope and mechanism to lift sanctions on Tehran in exchange for curbs on its nuclear program, a senior Iranian official told Reuters on Sunday, adding that new talks were planned in early March.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>The official said Tehran could seriously \u2060consider a combination of \u2060exporting part of its highly enriched uranium (HEU) stockpile, diluting the purity of its HEU and a regional consortium for enriching uranium, but in return Iran&#8217;s \u2060right to &#8220;peaceful nuclear enrichment&#8221; must be recognized.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;The negotiations continue and the possibility of reaching an interim agreement exists,&#8221; the official said.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Iran&#8217;s Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi said on Friday that he expected to have a draft counterproposal ready within days following nuclear talks with the \u2060United \u2060States this week, while US President Donald Trump said he was considering limited military strikes.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>The senior official said Tehran will not hand over control of its oil and mineral resources but US companies can always participate as contractors in Iran\u2019s oil and gas fields.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iran and the United States have differing views over the scope and mechanism to lift sanctions on Tehran in exchange for curbs on its nuclear program, a senior Iranian official told Reuters on Sunday, adding that new talks were planned in early March. The official said Tehran could seriously \u2060consider a combination of \u2060exporting part &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":60885,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international","category-news-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60884","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60884"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60884\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60886,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60884\/revisions\/60886"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}