WASHINGTON (TNND) — President Donald Trump will convene his Cabinet at the White House on Wednesday as talks aimed at ending the war with Iran continue. Trump has suggested that his administration and Tehran have “largely negotiated” a deal to reopen the Strait of Hormuz.
The meeting was originally supposed to take place at Camp David, but was moved to the White House because of the possibility of bad weather.
The fragile ceasefire put in place in April was tested Monday when U.S. forces carried out what the Pentagon described as “self-defense” strikes on missile launch sites and mine-laying boats in southern Iran.
Iran called the strikes a “grave violation of the ceasefire” and a sign of “bad faith and unreliability.”
Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Tuesday that talks on reopening the strait and extending the ceasefire will likely continue for several more days. The administration says the extended ceasefire period could be used to work out the finer details of a nuclear agreement.
“He’s either going to make a good deal or no deal,” Rubio told reporters about Trump.
Under the potential agreement, Tehran would give up its stockpile of highly enriched uranium — a key Trump demand — in exchange for sanctions relief, according to two regional officials and one senior Trump administration official who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss the sensitive negotiations.
One regional official with direct knowledge of the talks said the specifics of how Iran would relinquish the uranium would be negotiated during a 60-day period. Some of the material would likely be diluted, while the rest could be transferred to a third country, the official said.
Trump wrote on Truth Social on Monday that Iran’s enriched uranium would either be surrendered to the United States or destroyed.
“The Enriched Uranium (Nuclear Dust!) will either be immediately turned over to the United States to be brought home and destroyed or, preferably, in conjunction and coordination with the Islamic Republic of Iran, destroyed in place or, at another acceptable location, with the Atomic Energy Commission, or its equivalent, being witness to this process and event,” he wrote.
Earlier Monday, Trump also said countries negotiating for peace should join the Abraham Accords, the U.S.-brokered agreements from his first term aimed at normalizing diplomatic and economic relations with Israel.
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Editor’s note: The Associated Press contributed to this article.
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