Iran agreed not to stockpile enriched uranium: Oman

• Omani Foreign Minister Badr Albusaidi announced a "completely new" breakthrough where Iran has agreed to never stockpile enriched uranium and will blend existing stocks down to an "irreversible" neutral fuel level under full IAEA verification.
• Despite the Omani mediator’s claim that a deal is "within reach," President Trump expressed frustration with the negotiations, insisting on "no enrichment" at all and maintaining a massive naval buildup as his 15-day ultimatum for a deal approaches.

Iran agreed in talks with the United States never to stockpile enriched uranium, mediator Oman's top diplomat said Friday, in what he called a breakthrough that he hoped would prevent war.

"This is something completely new. It really makes the enrichment argument less relevant, because now we are talking about zero stockpiling," Omani Foreign Minister Badr Albusaidi told CBS News program "Face the Nation."

The Trump administration accuses Tehran of intending to build a nuclear weapon. But "if you cannot stockpile material that is enriched then there is no way you can actually create a bomb," Albusaidi told CBS.

"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 added.

"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.

US President Donald Trump on Friday voiced frustration with Iran's stance in nuclear negotiations.

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.