According to US President Donald Trump, nuclear talks with Iran last Friday showed "some real progress, serious progress."

"We've had some very, very good talks with Iran," Trump told reporters in northern New Jersey before returning to Washington on Sunday.

"And I don't know if I'll be telling you anything good or bad over the next two days, but I have a feeling I might be telling you something good," Trump said.

"Both the US and Iran are taking the current negotiations very seriously," Sina Azodi, assistant professor of Middle East policy at the Elliott School of International Affairs at George Washington University and an expert on international relations with a focus on Iran's foreign policy and nuclear non-proliferation, told DW. "They want to reach an agreement," she said.

According to Azodi, a deal with Iran is of great importance to the US government. "There are three central foreign policy issues for the White House: the war in Ukraine, the war in Gaza and Iran's nuclear program. An agreement with Iran would be considered a major foreign policy success," she said.

Meanwhile, the government in Iran is keen on a possible deal, Azodi adds. Iran is running out of time for the negotiations as the so-called snapback mechanism, a clause in the current agreement, is coming closer by the hour, she added.

In this case, all UN sanctions against Iran could come back in full force if no........

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