understands that the US and Iran are expected to hold
their 2nd round of nuclear talks on Saturday in Rome
. It follows their first meeting in years in Oman
over the weekend, which both sides called constructive.
Trump has made it a priority to curb Iran's nuclear
program and ensure it never builds an atomic weapon,
something Tehran has always insisted it does not want to
do. For more, our UAE bureau chief Dana
joins us now. OK, so yes. Today
, uh, they had signaled both sides that they
were gonna continue the conversations according to our reporting,
uh, the second round is gonna take place in
Rome. What do we know about the second round
? So from the first round that happened last weekend
, they said it was constructive and that they wanna
move forward with these talks. Now these negotiations are
still ongoing. There's a lot to get over here
, right? Distrust in the US administration, distrust
in the Iran administration as well, and Khamenei and
all of that, um. And I think this
time around it's going to be in Rome from our
original reporting yesterday and it will coincide with the visit
by US Vice President JD Vance. He's going to
be there, though the main mediators here are going
to be Foreign Minister Aragi from Iran and Steve Witkoff
, who is Trump's Mid East envoy. We saw
Trump yesterday kind of suggesting that Iran might be slow
walking these talks and negotiations. I think he's just
trying to. ramp up pressure. He wants to
resolve this in a diplomatic way but has always kept
this military option on the table. But the military
option will involve the US into another Middle East war
, into a bigger fiercer Middle East conflict here,
and it will embroil likely of course Gulf allies as
well like Saudi Arabia or the EU both said we
prefer a diplomatic solution to this. Now Iran is
weakened and that has been what we know so far
from what Israel has done with the waves of air
strikes against its proxies, but how much will Iran
give up and does it think, does it see
itself as weakened as others see it, and that
will be the question how much will it give up
because the US wants to end Iran's ability to create
a nuclear bomb. Iran says it's all peaceful.