Turkey’s foreign minister told the Financial Times on Thursday that the United States and Iran appear ready to make concessions in talks aimed at reviving a nuclear agreement, arguing that both sides are showing “flexibility” on issues that have blocked a deal in the past.
Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan said Washington now seems willing to tolerate limited uranium enrichment in Iran if it is kept within clear limits set in advance, a position he described as a meaningful shift in US posture.
Fidan said Iran, for its part, appears prepared to accept restrictions on enrichment levels and a stricter inspections regime, in terms he compared to the framework of the 2015 agreement that curbed Iran’s nuclear program in exchange for sanctions relief.
His comments came as diplomacy between Washington and Tehran has resumed through indirect contacts in Oman.
Fidan warned that expanding the negotiations beyond the nuclear file to include Iran’s ballistic missile program or Iran’s regional relationships could derail the talks and raise the risk of renewed conflict in the Middle East.
Iran insists that any revived deal must include sanctions relief and protect Iran’s right to enrichment, while the US government had not publicly commented on Fidan’s remarks at the time of publication.