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Jack Keene, a senior strategy analyst at Fox News, joins the “American Newsroom” to discuss the latest information on the Trump administration’s nuclear program with Iran and the president’s efforts to end the war in Ukraine.
The US and Iran agreed to meet in third round consultations in Muscat, Oman later this week after meeting in Italy with Omani intermediaries to discuss Iran’s nuclear program on Saturday.
No details on the negotiations have been released, and specific progress in ending Iran’s nuclear program remains unknown, but senior administrators told Fox News that “very good progress” had been made.
“Today, in Rome, we have made very good progress in Rome, over four hours of direct and indirect discussions in our second round,” an official said on Saturday. “We agreed to meet again next week and thanked our Omani partners for facilitating these talks and our Italian partners who hosted us today.”
Trump says Iran must discard the “nuclear weapons concept” before more talks
On April 12, 2025, an Iranian newspaper accompanied by a photo of Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Aragki and US Middle Eastern envoy Steve Witkov in Tehran. (via Majid Asgaripour/Wana (West Asia News Agency))
Reports say at some point in the negotiations, Middle Eastern envoy Steve Witkov and Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Aragci faced them for a second time in weeks.
But the negotiations between Washington and Tehran were not “direct” because President Donald Trump claimed they would be, and Iran rejected it altogether.
It remains unknown that Witkov had a direct discussion with his Iranian counterpart.
Araguchi also expressed optimism in a review of negotiations from Italy, but his perspective seemed a little calmer.
“The relatively positive atmosphere in Rome allowed for progress in possible trading principles and objectives,” he wrote. I’ll post it on x. “We have revealed how many people in Iran believe it. [Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action] The JCPOA is no longer sufficient for us. For them, what remains from the transaction is the “learnings learned.” Personally, I tend to agree. ”
Col. Richard Kemp suspects Trump’s negotiations with Iran “achieves what needs to be achieved.”
The engineer works on March 30, 2005 at a uranium conversion facility near Isfahan, Iran. (Getty Images)
“The start of the expert level track will begin in the next few days to launch details,” Araguchi said. “We’re then in a better position to judge. For now, optimism may be guaranteed, but we only pay a lot of attention.”
While it remains unclear how this series of negotiations to end Iran’s nuclear program will differ from the original JPCOA, an Obama-era nuclear deal that Trump abandoned during his first term, the president and other security experts have expressed an urgent need to find a solution in the very near future.
However, according to General Jack Keane, a senior strategy analyst at Fox News, many security experts see these negotiation attempts with “real concerns” as “Iran in 2025 is not Iran in 2015, not Iran in 2015,” and so is Iran where the first nuclear deal was made.”
Secretary of State John Kelly, third from the left, and other US officials will meet with EU and Iranian authorities for nuclear negotiations on June 30, 2015 in Vienna, Austria. (Pool/Siamek Ebrahimi/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images)
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“The difference is that Iran has the ability to manufacture advanced centrifuges that can enrich uranium from scratch to weapon grade in just a few weeks,” Keene said.
Essentially, this means that the US must persuade Iran to remove the richly enriched uranium in its nearby weapons – if enriched further, it is enough to produce five nuclear weapons – dismantle its manufacturing capabilities.
“One more different thing in 2025 – there are ballistic missiles that can deliver weapons,” Keene added. “I haven’t seen what’s in the deal.”
