Iran to meet with Europeans, and Trump sees ‘substantial chance’ of renewed talks

A week after severe speculation about whether President Donald Trump will make a blow to Iran to support Israel’s efforts to eliminate the country’s nuclear weapons program, White House press secretary Caroline Levit announced that there is a great opportunity for renewable negotiations.

This comes at a time when Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Aragchi is said in an interview with European leaders in Geneva on Friday.

Speaking with correspondents in the White House press briefing room, Levitte confirmed that American officials and Iranian officials had participated in six rounds of direct and indirect negotiations during the conflict with Israel, which erupted on June 13.

Trump again emphasizes the difficult line of the Iranian nuclear deal: “No uranium enrichment will be allowed.”

However, Levitte did not mention whether the US Special Envoy Steve Whitchov, who leads the president’s negotiations with Iran, would be present in the Geneva meetings.

He asked to write to Fox News, senior White House Jackie Heinrich Whether the fact that Iranian officials have found a way to reach Geneva means that they can also reach the White House to participate in negotiations, Levitte replied: “I will not enter the assumptions, but as I heard from the president yesterday, they expressed their interest in this.”

In addressing the possibility of the United States directly participating in the conflict, Levitte read a message from the president saying: “Based on the fact that there is a great opportunity for negotiations that may occur or not take place with Iran in the near future, I will make my decision whether I will go within the next two weeks.”

While she said Trump was hoping to find a diplomatic solution to the conflict, she said that it was simultaneously “directly and clearly” that the conditions of any deal with the country should not include any uranium fertilization, which will contribute to the Iranian nuclear program that the president has long opposed.

A large column of smoke from an oil refinery rises in southern Tehran after reports of an Israeli strike during the night targeting the site June 15, 2025. (Atta Kenare/AFP)

She stressed that the United States is facing a serious threat because of the Iranian nuclear program, saying: “Iran was not closer to obtaining a nuclear weapon.”

“Iran has everything it needs to achieve a nuclear weapon. All they need is a decision from the Supreme Leader to do so,” Levitte said. “It will take a few weeks to complete the production of this weapon, which, of course, will be an existential threat not only for Israel, but for the United States and the entire world.”

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Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khounai is addressing the media during the elections in Tehran, Iran, May 10, 2024. (Fatemeh Bahrami/Anadolu via Getty Images)

However, Levitte said: “Iran is absolutely unable to achieve a nuclear weapon. The president was very clear about it. By the way, the deal proposed by the special envoy, both realistic and acceptable within its conditions, is the reason why the president sent that deal to them.”

Levitte stressed Trump’s position that Iran “could face a deal” to end the conflict or “will face severe consequences.”

She said: “Iran is in a weak situation and a very weak situation due to strikes and attacks from Israel.” “We have sent a deal for them, and that was realistic.”

According to the French outlet RFI, the talks will include on Friday with the Iranians, French Foreign Minister Jean -Nawil Barrot, UK Foreign Minister David Lami, German Foreign Minister Johan Wadiol and European Foreign Foreign policy President Kaja Callas.

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The map shows where the most important nuclear sites are in Iran. (Fox News/FDD)

“France, Britain and Germany are ready to bring our efficiency and experience in this regard,” the outlet Barrot said, “We are ready to participate in negotiations aimed at obtaining a permanent decline in nuclear and ballistic missile programs.”

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US Secretary of State Marco Rubio met Lami on Thursday. According to a statement issued by a spokesman for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Tami Bruce, the two discussed the Israeli conflict, Iran and “the agreed Iran cannot develop or obtain a nuclear weapon.

In response to additional questions about potential US negotiations with Iran, the White House representative directed Fox News Digital to Leavitt’s comments in the briefing room.