Iran talks with Europeans set for Friday; White House sees ‘substantial chance’ for renewed negotiations

After a week of aggravated speculation astir whether President Donald Trump volition motorboat a onslaught connected Iran successful enactment of Israel’s efforts to destruct the country’s atomic weapons program, White House property caput Karoline Leavitt announced determination is simply a "substantial chance" for renewed negotiations.

This comes arsenic Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi is reportedly scheduled to conscionable with European leaders successful Geneva Friday.

Speaking with reporters successful the White House property briefing country Thursday, Leavitt confirmed U.S. and Iranian officials person engaged successful six rounds of nonstop and indirect negotiations during the struggle with Israel, which broke retired June 13.

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Leavitt, however, did not accidental whether U.S. Special Envoy Steve Witkoff, who has been starring the president’s negotiations with Iran, would beryllium contiguous for the meetings successful Geneva.

Asked by Senior White House Correspondent Jacqui Heinrich whether the information that Iranian officials had recovered a mode to get to Geneva meant they could besides get to the White House to prosecute successful negotiations, Leavitt responded: "I americium not going to get into hypotheticals, but arsenic you heard from the president yesterday, they person expressed involvement successful doing so."

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi, left, speaks with an unidentified Omani authoritative upon his accomplishment astatine Muscat, Oman, April 25, 2025, a time earlier negotiations with U.S. Mideast envoy Steve Witkoff. (AP)

Addressing the anticipation of the U.S. becoming straight progressive successful the conflict, Leavitt work a connection from the president saying, "Based connected the information that there's a important accidental of negotiations that whitethorn oregon whitethorn not instrumentality spot with Iran successful the adjacent future, I volition marque my determination whether oregon not to spell wrong the adjacent 2 weeks."

While she said Trump is hoping to find a diplomatic solution to the conflict, she said helium has simultaneously been precise "direct and clear" that the presumption of immoderate woody with the state indispensable see nary enrichment of uranium, which would lend to the Iranian atomic programme the president has agelong opposed.

A monolithic plume of fume rises from an lipid refinery successful confederate Tehran aft reports of an overnight Israeli onslaught targeting the tract June 15, 2025. (Atta Kenare/AFP)

She stressed the U.S. faces a superior menace owed to Iran's atomic program, saying, "Iran has ne'er been person to obtaining a atomic weapon." 

"Iran has each that it needs to execute a atomic weapon. All they request is simply a determination from the ultimate person to bash that," said Leavitt. "And it would instrumentality a mates of weeks to implicit the accumulation of that weapon, which would, of course, airs an existential menace not conscionable to Israel, but to the United States and to the full world."

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Iran's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei addresses the media during elections successful Tehran, Iran, May 10, 2024. (Fatemeh Bahrami/Anadolu via Getty Images)

Nonetheless, Leavitt said, "Iran is perfectly not capable to execute a atomic weapon. The president has been precise wide astir that. And, by the way, the woody that Special Envoy Witkoff projected to the Iranians was some realistic and acceptable wrong its terms, and that's wherefore the president sent that woody to them."

Leavitt emphasized Trump’s stance that Iran "can and should marque a deal" to extremity the struggle oregon "they volition look sedate consequences."

"Iran is successful a precise anemic and susceptible presumption due to the fact that of the strikes and the attacks from Israel," she said. "We sent a woody to them that was practical, that was realistic."

According to French outlet RFI, the talks Friday with the Iranians volition see French Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot, U.K. Foreign Secretary David Lammy, German Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul and European Union overseas argumentation main Kaja Kallas.

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A representation shows wherever Iran's astir important atomic sites are situated. (Fox News/FDD)

The outlet reported Barrot saying, "France, Britain and Germany basal acceptable to bring our competence and acquisition connected this matter" and "we are acceptable to instrumentality portion successful negotiations aimed astatine obtaining from Iran a lasting rollback of its atomic and ballistic rocket programs."

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U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio met with Lammy Thursday. According to a connection by State Department spokesperson Tammy Bruce, the 2 discussed the Israeli-Iran struggle and "agreed Iran tin ne'er make oregon get a atomic weapon.

In effect to further questions astir imaginable U.S. negotiations with Iran, a typical for the White House directed Fox News Digital to Leavitt's comments successful the briefing room.