State Department Confirms 'constructive' Nuclear Talks With Iran; Trump Says Deal 'sort Of' Agreed To

The State Department said atomic talks betwixt nan U.S. and Iran person been constructive, and President Donald Trump has been clear astir wanting to spot diplomacy.

U.S. State Department lawman spokesperson Tommy Pigott was asked during a property briefing Thursday astir comments made by Trump, and he said nan U.S. and Iran were adjacent to an Iran atomic deal.

Trump, speaking successful Doha, Qatar, said he thinks nan U.S. and Iran "are getting close" to making a woody without immoderate violence. In Trump fashion, he said location are 2 steps — "a very bully measurement and a convulsive step" — which he added consists of unit group person ne'er seen before.

The president besides said Thursday successful Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates (UAE), that nan U.S. and Iran person "sort of" agreed to position connected a atomic deal.

TRUMP SAYS IRAN MUST DITCH ‘CONCEPT OF A NUCLEAR WEAPON’ AHEAD OF MORE TALKS

State Department Deputy Spokesperson Tommy Pigott told reporters atomic talks betwixt nan U.S. and Iran person been "constructive" and that President Trump wants to spot diplomacy. (State Department)

"Iran has benignant of agreed to nan terms. They’re not going to make — I telephone it, successful a friends measurement — atomic dust," Trump told reporters, suggesting a increasing alignment pinch nan position he has been seeking. "We’re not going to beryllium making immoderate atomic particulate successful Iran."

While Pigott would not remark connected backstage negotiated conversations aliases negotiations, he reiterated Trump’s stance connected nan matter.

"The president has been clear that Iran tin ne'er person a atomic weapon," Pigott told reporters. "The talks person been described arsenic constructive by nan participants successful them, and so, again, Iran tin ne'er person a atomic weapon. And nan president has been clear. He wants diplomacy. He wants to spot a negotiated solution here."

Pigott made his remarks arsenic Trump tours nan Middle East, making stops successful Saudi Arabia and Qatar.

TRUMP CALLS FOR 'NUCLEAR PEACE AGREEMENT' WITH IRAN RATHER THAN BLOWING COUNTRY 'TO SMITHEREENS'

President Donald Trump and UAE President Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan talk Thursday, May 15, 2025. (AP/Alex Brandon)

Trump, while speaking astatine nan Gulf Cooperation Council successful Riyadh Wednesday, reiterated his desire to make a woody pinch Iran and called for building upon nan advancement of nan Abraham Accords by adding much countries to nan historical agreement.

Trump made nan comments while addressing leaders of nan Gulf Cooperation Council arsenic portion of his four-day sojourn to nan region. 

TRUMP SAYS HE'LL BE 'LEADING THE PACK' TO WAR WITH IRAN IF DEAL PROSPECTS WHITHER AWAY

"I want to make a woody pinch Iran. I want to do thing if possible. But for that to happen, it must extremity sponsoring terror, halt its bloody proxy wars and permanently and verifiably cease its pursuit of atomic weapons. They cannot person a atomic weapon," Trump said.

Though Trump said he wants to make a woody pinch Iran and spot Tehran prosper, he besides precocious accused nan Iranian authorities of not only hurting its ain nation, but nan region astatine large.

"Iran's leaders person focused connected stealing their people's wealthiness to money panic and bloodshed abroad. Most tragic of all, they person dragged down an full region pinch them," Trump said. 

The president pointed to nan "countless lives lost" successful Iran’s effort to prop up nan erstwhile Bashar al-Assad authorities successful Syria, which collapsed successful December, and accused its support of Hezbollah for nan downfall of Beirut, which he said was "once called nan Paris of nan Middle East."

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It is unclear really Trump’s antagonistic comments toward Tehran could impact ongoing atomic negotiations pinch Iran.

Still, The Associated Press reported Thursday that a apical political, subject and atomic advisor to Iran's ultimate leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, told NBC News Wednesday that Tehran stands fresh to get free of its stockpiles of highly enriched uranium that tin beryllium weaponized, work together to enrich uranium only to nan little levels needed for civilian usage and let world inspectors to supervise nan process.

In return, Ali Shamkhani, nan advisor, said Iran wants an contiguous lifting of each economical sanctions.

Fox News Digital’s Bradford Betz and Caitlin McFall and The Associated Press contributed to this report.