US accepted all demands in nuclear talks, says Iranian MP

The daughter of Jamshid Sharmahd, a dual-nationality detainee who died in Iranian custody, accused Tehran of using nuclear diplomacy to mask its brutality.

“The world may play your game a little longer. But history is shifting—and you can feel it. A regime built on hostage-taking, barbaric torture and executions cannot survive truth,” Ghazaleh Sharmahd wrote in a post on X, responding to comments by Iranian FM Abbas Araghchi about progress in US-Iran talks.

“Your Khomeinist Islamist Regime killed my father then mutilated his body to silence him. You cut out his tongue. But his voice speaks through us now.”

She dismissed the negotiations as a game and warned Iranian authorities: “I call it your countdown.”

Israel has not decided to strike Iran’s nuclear facilities and would accept a diplomatic resolution if it blocks Tehran from acquiring nuclear weapons said Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar.

“I don’t remember such a decision,” Sa’ar told The Telegraph, responding to a New York Times report that Trump blocked an Israeli strike planned for May.

“If that objective can be achieved by a diplomatic path, it is acceptable.” He warned against trusting Iran, saying it “Iran always mocked its international obligations. I’m not excluding the option that they will try to get some partial agreements, to avoid getting to the necessary solution.”

An Iranian lawmaker defended ongoing indirect talks with the United States but dismissed the prospect of face-to-face engagement, calling Washington unworthy of direct dialogue.

“We won’t close the path of negotiations to protect our interests, but the US is not worthy of direct talks,” Ahmad Rastineh, spokesman for parliament’s cultural committee, told local media on Sunday.

He rejected that Iran was forced into talks as part of a “false narrative.” Despite long-standing vows not to negotiate under sanctions, Iranian officials ultimately engaged in dialogue with the Trump administration during a period of heightened economic and diplomatic pressure.

The Carnegie Endowment’s decision to name Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi as the keynote speaker at its upcoming Nuclear Policy Conference on Monday has stirred controversy in Washington, DC.

Former Florida Governor Jeb Bush criticized the move, saying that American think tanks should not “normalize officials from a regime which has plotted to kill President Trump and other Americans.”

Mark Wallace, the CEO of the advocacy group United Against Nuclear Iran, also condemned the Carnegie Endowment, saying, "It's a disgrace for him to be hosted, even virtually, to provide a platform for him to engage in a malign influence operation in Washington."

"Carnegie should rescind the invitation."

At a point during the negotiations in Rome, US President Donald Trump’s special envoy Steve Witkoff and Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi spoke face to face, a US official confirmed to reporters, according to the Associated Press.

The two chief negotiators had previously encountered each other following the first round of talks in Muscat in the presence of the Omani foreign minister.

At the time, Iranian officials said the face-to-face interaction in Oman was very brief, describing it as merely an exchange of greetings. However, Axios reported that the two sides spoke for 45 minutes.

Iranian authorities have repeatedly emphasized in recent weeks that the talks must remain indirect, rejecting the possibility of direct negotiations with the United States.