CAIRO/WASHINGTON — The United States announced on Saturday that it had presented a new offer for a nuclear deal with Iran, which the Islamic Republic confirmed it had received.

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said US President Donald Trump’s special envoy Steve Witkoff “has sent a detailed and acceptable proposal to the Iranian regime, and it’s in their best interest to accept it.”

“President Trump has made it clear that Iran can never obtain a nuclear bomb,” Leavitt said in a statement Saturday, confirming that the US proposal had been communicated to Iran. She declined to provide further details.

Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said his Omani counterpart had presented elements of a new US proposal on the matter during a short visit to Tehran on Saturday.

Araghchi said in a post on X that Iran “will respond to the US proposal in line with the principles, national interests and rights of the people of Iran.”

The development came ahead of an anticipated sixth round of talks between Washington and Tehran to resolve a decades-long dispute over Iran’s nuclear program. The date and venue of the talks have not been announced yet.

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