Trump says wants Iran to have “no enrichment” of uranium

• US President Trump explicitly rejected even civilian uranium enrichment for Iran, labeling it "uncivil," and expressed dissatisfaction with current negotiations while maintaining a massive military buildup in the Middle East.
• Oman's "Zero Stockpiling" Breakthrough: Mediators announced a potential breakthrough where Iran would agree to zero stockpiling of enriched material and the "irreversible" conversion of current stocks into fuel—a proposal Oman claims "cracks the problem" of nuclear proliferation.

US President Donald Trump on Friday said he did not want Iran to have any uranium enrichment at all, even for civilian purposes, a day after Washington and Tehran held talks on nuclear and other issues.

"I say no enrichment," Trump told reporters ahead of an event in the Texas port city of Corpus Christi. "Not 20 percent, 30 percent, they always want 20 percent, 30 percent, they want it for civilian, you know, for civil. I think it's uncivil."

Trump also reiterated that he was "not happy with the negotiation."

After Trump’s statements, mediator Oman promoted what it said was a "breakthrough" to avert war.

Oman, which mediated the Geneva talks, said that Iran had agreed to zero stockpiling of any uranium, making moot the question of the level of enrichment.

Iran also agreed to degrade current stockpiles into fuel, said Oman's foreign minister, Badr Albusaidi, who was in Washington meeting US Vice President JD Vance.

"If the ultimate objective is to ensure forever that Iran cannot have a nuclear bomb, I think we have cracked that problem through these negotiations by agreeing a very important breakthrough that has never been achieved any time before," Albusaidi told CBS News program "Face the Nation."

"If we can capture that and build on it, I think a deal is within our reach," he said, estimating that three months would be needed to finalize an accord.

Trump has ordered the biggest military build-up in decades in the Middle East, with the world's largest aircraft carrier, the USS Gerald R. Ford, approaching the coast of Israel, as he demands Iran agree to sweeping concessions on concerns starting with its nuclear program.

A day after the United States and Iran held talks in Geneva, Trump said that the Islamic Republic was "not willing to give us what we have to have."

"We're not exactly happy with the way they negotiated. They cannot have nuclear weapons, and we're not thrilled with the way they're negotiating," Trump told reporters.

He later said he wants Iran to have "no enrichment" at all of uranium that could go toward a nuclear bomb, which Iran denies it is pursuing.

The renewed US pressure comes weeks after Iranian authorities killed thousands of people as they crushed mass protests.

As Washington mobilizes forces, Trump said "nobody knows" if a US attack would bring down the Iranian government.

Iran agreed to restrictions to low-level enrichment in a 2015 deal that Trump ripped up during his first term in office.

Trump in June had said that Iran's key nuclear sites had been "obliterated" after the United States joined a major ‘Israeli’ bombing campaign on the country.