US President Donald Trump said in a recent interview with NBC News’ “Meet the Press” that he would not unfreeze Iranian assets or lift any sanctions before a peace deal is reached. Trump said he would consider those steps after an agreement is done. “Comes after,” he said. “Yeah. If they behave, if they do a good job, we start talking. Yeah.” Trump also said that he was not demanding that Lebanon be a part of a short-term deal with Tehran.
The United States is lobbying other countries on the U.N. nuclear watchdog’s Board of Governors to back a draft resolution ordering Iran to inform the agency of the fate of its bombed nuclear sites and the enriched uranium that was stored there. The text of the U.S. draft resolution seen by Reuters on Sunday and circulated ahead of this week’s quarterly meeting of the 35-nation board risks further complicating current talks between the U.S. and Iran because Iran bristles at resolutions against it at the International Atomic Energy Agency.
While previous IAEA board resolutions against Iran have passed by a clear margin, this text could meet stiffer resistance since it is the U.S. that, along with Israel, bombed Iran’s nuclear sites last June, since when the agency has been unable to return to those sites.
Iran must “provide the Agency with precise information on nuclear material accountancy and safeguarded nuclear facilities in Iran” and “grant the Agency all access it requires to verify this information,” the text seen by Reuters said, saying both must happen “without delay” and are “essential and urgent”.
The text refrains, however, from reporting Iran to the U.N. Security Council, as some diplomats had said was being considered, which would have been a follow-up to a resolution the board passed on June 12, 2025, declaring Iran in breach of its non-proliferation obligations.
(With inputs from Reuters)
Zubair Amin is a Senior Journalist at NewsX with over seven years of experience in reporting and editorial work. He has written for leading national and international publications, including Foreign Policy Magazine, Al Jazeera, The Economic Times, The Indian Express, The Wire, Article 14, Mongabay, News9, among others. His primary focus is on international affairs, with a strong interest in US politics and policy. He also writes on West Asia, Indian polity, and constitutional issues. Zubair tweets at zubaiyr.amin
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