Trump said he will be meeting in the Situation Room “to make a final determination”
“Ships caught in the Strait due to our amazing and unprecedented Naval Blockade, which will now be lifted, may start the process of ‘heading home!” Say HELLO to your wives, husbands, parents, and families from me, your favourite President!” the US president wrote in a lengthy post on Truth Social.
Trump said some items have already been agreed upon, but insisted Iran “must agree” never to have a nuclear weapon, and that the Strait of Hormuz must be reopened without tolls, indicating not all sticking points have yet been resolved.
His vice president, JD Vance, told reporters late on Thursday that Washington was “not there yet” with Iran on an agreement, saying the parties were close, but differences remained around Iran’s enriched uranium stockpile and the question of enrichment.
Kazakhstan is open to taking Iran’s uranium stockpile
Kazakhstan has signalled it is willing to take Tehran’s stockpile of uranium enriched close to weapons-grade levels if the U.S. reaches a deal with Iran over its nuclear programme, the head of the UN’s nuclear watchdog told the Financial Times.
The central Asian state expressed its openness to keeping the stockpile when Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev met International Atomic Energy Agency chief Rafael Grossi in Astana this week, Grossi told the newspaper in an interview published on Friday.
Kazakhstan hosts an internationally-controlled bank of low-enriched uranium to ensure fuel supplies for power stations in IAEA member states and prevent nuclear proliferation. The storage facility was opened in 2017 in collaboration with the IAEA.