{"id":49998,"date":"2026-04-14T01:00:31","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T01:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/?p=49998"},"modified":"2026-04-14T01:00:31","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T01:00:31","slug":"us-pitched-iran-on-20-year-uranium-enrichment-pause-during-pakistan-talks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/?p=49998","title":{"rendered":"US pitched Iran on 20-year uranium enrichment &#8216;pause&#8217; during Pakistan talks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<br \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>WASHINGTON \u2014 The US asked Iran to suspend its uranium enrichment program for at least two decades during weekend <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/04\/11\/us-news\/us-iran-fail-to-reach-peace-agreement-after-marathon-talks-in-pakistan\/\">cease-fire negotiations in Pakistan<\/a>, a source familiar with the talks told The Post Monday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe United States suggested 20 years at a minimum with all kinds of other restrictions,\u201d said the person, apparently indicating that the White House had budged on what President Trump had previously described as a red line for his administration.<\/p>\n<p>The US offer was first <a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2026\/04\/13\/iran-uranium-enrichment-moratorium-talks-vance\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported by Axios<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Various centrifuge machines at the Natanz Uranium Enrichment Facility in Iran seen on April 11. <span class=\"credit\">AP<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>JD Vance, Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, and Iran\u2019s parliamentary Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf on a panel discussing US-Iran peace talks. <span class=\"credit\">BILAWAL ARBAB\/EPA\/Shutterstock<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Discussions led by Vice President\u00a0JD Vance\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/04\/12\/world-news\/iran-says-no-plans-for-further-us-peace-talks\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">broke up in Islamabad\u00a0<\/a>after 21 hours with no agreement announced \u2014 though President Trump claimed Monday that Tehran was ready to try again.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve been called by the other side,\u201d he told reporters outside the Oval Office. \u201cThey\u2019d like to make a deal very badly, very badly.\u201d<\/p>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module aligncenter wp-block-nypost-editor-primary-tag\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>Trump acknowledged that the future of Tehran\u2019s nuclear program was the sticking point, insisting: \u201cIran will not have a nuclear weapon. And we agreed to a lot of things, but they didn\u2019t agree to that. I think they will agree to it. I\u2019m almost sure of it. In fact, I am sure of it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf they don\u2019t agree, there\u2019s no deal. There\u2019ll never be a deal. Iran will not have a nuclear weapon, and we\u2019re going to get the [uranium] dust back.\u00a0We\u2019ll get it back. Either we\u2019ll get it back from them or we\u2019ll take it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The White House\u00a0later\u00a0confirmed the US and Iran were in \u201ccontinued engagement\u201d with \u201cforward motion,\u201d without elaborating.<\/p>\n<p>With the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/04\/13\/world-news\/iran-doesnt-have-military-means-to-keep-up-fight-against-us-and-israel-pakistani-official\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">war in its seventh week<\/a>, economic pressure is building on both nations. Oil prices briefly surged back above $100 per barrel after the US Navy began a blockade of Iranian ports on the Strait of Hormuz, while regular gas prices remain above $4.12 per gallon on average nationwide.<\/p>\n<p>But Tehran is also feeling the heat. With the strait blocked, Iran has lost its main route to distribute oil and receive cargo.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>US Vice President JD Vance (R) speaks during a news conference after meeting with representatives from Pakistan and Iran, as US President Donald Trump\u2019s son-in-law Jared Kushner (L) and US Special Envoy to the Middle East Steve Witkoff (C) watch, in Islamabad on April 12, 2026. <span class=\"credit\">POOL\/AFP via Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Only 14 vessels went through the strait on both Saturday and Sunday as the Pakistan peace talks collapsed and Trump issued the blockade order, according to\u00a0maritime data firm\u00a0Kpler.<\/p>\n<p>Oil\u00a0accounts for more than half of Iran\u2019s exports and almost all of its government\u2019s income.<\/p>\n<p>The blockade is a\u00a0\u201csignificant pressure tactic designed to choke the regime. It is a natural step before something more serious,\u201d Jason Greenblatt, White House Middle East envoy in the first Trump administration, told The Post.<\/p>\n<p>Trump \u201cneeds to see a real, credible offer on uranium enrichment with Iran having no chance for a nuclear weapon. There is little to no flexibility from President Trump on that point,\u201d he added.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Iran accused the American president of \u201cpiracy\u201d in response to the blockade, with parliament speaker\u00a0Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf mocking American consumers on social media.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEnjoy the current pump figures,\u201d he wrote on X. \u201cWith the so-called \u2018blockade\u2019, Soon [sic] you\u2019ll be nostalgic for $4\u2013$5 gas.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, America\u2019s longtime European allies were staying away from the blockade, with the leaders of Britain and France making clear their countries would not be involved.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are not supporting the blockade,\u201d British Prime Minister Keir Starmer told BBC Radio, adding that London was \u201cnot getting dragged in\u201d the conflict.<\/p>\n<p>And French President Emmanuel Macron announced Monday that his nation and the United Kingdom would host talks about reopening the Strait of Hormuz via a \u201cstrictly defensive mission.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe will, together with the United Kingdom, organize in the coming days a conference with countries willing to contribute alongside us a peaceful multinational mission aimed at restoring freedom of navigation in the strait,\u201d Macron said in a statement shortly before the US blockade took effect.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/04\/13\/world-news\/us-pitched-iran-on-20-year-uranium-enrichment-pause-during-pakistan-talks\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON \u2014 The US asked Iran to suspend its uranium enrichment program for at least two decades during weekend cease-fire negotiations in Pakistan, a source familiar&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":49999,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49998","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49998"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49998\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/49999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}