NEW DELHI,14 April 2026 : Tehran has reportedly proposed suspending uranium enrichment for up to five years — an offer the Trump administration rejected, insisting on 20 years.
A disagreement over Tehran’s nuclear activities was the central sticking point in the weekend negotiations between Iran and the United States in Pakistan. Washington has proposed a 20-year freeze on Iran’s uranium enrichment in its proposal, but Tehran said it could only agree to do it for five years, according to reports by The New York Times and the Wall Street Journal.
Per reports, the United States and Iran exchanged proposals on the suspension of Iranian nuclear activities during the Islamabad talks, but remain far apart on the length of any agreement. Tehran has proposed suspending uranium enrichment for up to five years — an offer the Trump administration rejected, insisting on 20 years, the NYT reported, quoting two senior Iranian officials and one US official.
The development marked a major shift from the Donald Trump administration’s earlier demands that Tehran permanently end domestic enrichment amid concerns it could provide a pathway to nuclear weapons capability.
According to political scientist Ian Bremmer, amid disagreement, the US and Iran may close the deal on a twelve-and-a-half-year suspension on uranium enrichment.
The weekend meeting to resolve the conflict between the US and Iran was the first direct encounter between Washington and Tehran in more than a decade and the most senior engagement since Iran’s 1979 Islamic Revolution.
However, the impasse on Tehran’s nuclear activities ended the Islamabad talks, but officials said the dialogue was still alive, and there may be a path to a peace deal, even as the US military began its blockade of Iranian ports on Monday, threatening a nearly week-old cease-fire.
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