Iran's foreign minister says no return to talks decided as Oman mediates
Iran's Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi confirmed Saturday that Tehran has reached no decision on resuming nuclear negotiations with Washington, even as Omani intermediaries work to establish viable routes for renewed contact. Araghchi tied any movement on Hormuz shipping conditions directly to US concessions — a sequencing demand Washington has not accepted. The statement came hours after Trump's territorial claim over the strait, but Araghchi's framing treats that claim as background noise rather than a new variable. Oman's mediation role is structurally familiar; what is less clear is whether either government has given Muscat anything new to carry. The gap between "working on routes" and "deciding to talk" is where deals die. Prediction markets pricing a near-term diplomatic breakthrough on Iran's nuclear file are running against a foreign minister who just told them, in plain language, that no breakthrough has been authorized — and against a US posture that has added territorial maximalism to its existing conditions list.
