{"id":863861,"date":"2026-09-28T19:26:17","date_gmt":"2026-09-28T19:26:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/863861\/"},"modified":"2026-09-28T19:26:17","modified_gmt":"2026-09-28T19:26:17","slug":"trump-open-to-iran-sanctions-relief-for-concrete-progress-on-nuclear-issues-us-official-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/863861\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump open to Iran sanctions relief for \u2018concrete progress\u2019 on nuclear issues, US official says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph-elevate inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph_elevate\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmulfvgfa002v28qhfbp8h7ae@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            President Donald Trump is willing to give Iran sanctions relief and release frozen funds as part of a final deal, but only if Tehran offers \u201cconcrete progress\u201d on the nuclear issue, a US official told CNN Monday, as mediators try to bring both countries back to the negotiating table.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-elevate inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph_elevate\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmulg2en0000b3b6qc8x4y6fv@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            The United States is having \u201cpositive and constructive discussions through the mediators,\u201d the official said, though they noted that there will not be a deal unless nuclear issues are addressed. Trump on Saturday rejected Iran\u2019s latest proposal to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, calling it \u201cunacceptable.\u201d\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-elevate inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph_elevate\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmulg1zw000003b6qw5pg61ha@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            On Sunday, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2026\/09\/27\/trump-iran-war-hormuz-blockade-negotiations\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Trump told Axios<\/a> that he expects more talks with Iran to occur this week. The official said that special envoy Steve Witkoff, Jared Kushner, Vice President JD Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio are leading the talks on the US side.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-elevate inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph_elevate\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmulg1zw000013b6qolr4v2ay@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            \u201cThey want to make a deal, but it is not the deal that I want to make,\u201d the president said. \u201cIt is what we would have maybe agreed to a year ago. They overplayed their hand.\u201d\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-elevate inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph_elevate\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmulg1zw000023b6qg9p3t2oy@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            According to the official, Iran has indicated they are flexible on nuclear issues \u2014 but both sides have not reached an agreement on the timing of the commitments.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-elevate inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph_elevate\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmulg1zw000033b6qttkpv65i@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            US Ambassador to the United Nations Mike Waltz told CNN\u2019s Jake Tapper on Sunday that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2026\/09\/26\/middleeast\/trump-rejects-iran-proposal-hormuz-intl\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Trump rejected the proposal<\/a> because he did not believe Iran was negotiating in good faith, arguing that it was unacceptable that Tehran was \u201casking for everything up front.\u201d\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-elevate inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph_elevate\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmulg1zw000043b6qf34rvexi@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            \u201cThe bottom line is they were asking for everything up front with a promise that they would then talk,\u201d Waltz said on \u201cState of the Union.\u201d\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-elevate inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph_elevate\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmulg1zw000053b6qiur7vh18@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Waltz later told NBC\u2019s \u201cMeet the Press\u201d that \u201cit\u2019s kind of common sense\u201d Trump doesn\u2019t have a lot of confidence in the Iranian proposal. He dismissed Tehran\u2019s latest offer as \u201ca pretty cynical attempt to put something on the table that they knew was unacceptable.\u201d\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-elevate inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph_elevate\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmulg1zw000063b6q3duspzbp@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            The US official reiterated Waltz\u2019s assertion that the United States is skeptical of Iran\u2019s promises, given the country violated the US-Iran memorandum of understanding reached in July by firing on commercial vessels.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-elevate inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph_elevate\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmulizxcw00053b6q439vh04o@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            This story has been updated with additional context.\n    <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"President Donald Trump is willing to give Iran sanctions relief and release frozen funds as part of a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":863862,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,3,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-863861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-news","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/863861","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=863861"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/863861\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/863862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=863861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=863861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=863861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}