US envoy Witkoff & Iranian FM Araghchi to meet in Istanbul on Friday to discuss de-escalation, possible nuclear deal

. . .However, Jason Brodsky, Policy Director at the think tank United Against Nuclear Iran (UANI) noted on X that “First Ali Bagheri, Larijani's deputy at the SNSC, and now Ali Shamkhani, Khamenei's representative on the Defense Council, says Iran's regime will not ship its stockpile of enriched uranium out of Iranian soil. If this is the Iranian position, the talks will be over before they begin.”