likely further limiting inspectors’ ability to track Tehran’s programme that had been enriching uranium to near weapons-grade levels. The order by President Masoud Pezeshkian included no timetables or details about what that suspension would entail. Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi signalled in a CBS News interview that Tehran still would be willing to continue negotiations with the United States.

“I don’t think negotiations will restart as quickly as that,” Araghchi said, referring to US President Donald Trump’s comments that talks could start as early as this week. However, he added: “The doors of diplomacy will never slam shut.” Iran has limited IAEA inspections in the past as a pressure tactic in negotiating with the West – though as of right now Tehran has denied that there’s any immediate plans to resume talks with the United States that had been upended by the 12-day Iran-Israel war. (Jamaica Gleaner)