Iranian President Pezeshkian says Iran is ready for an agreement with the US and makes demands only within the framework of international law and could give up highly enriched uranium if it reaches an agreement with the US, according to TASS

Offers to dilute or ship out highly enriched uranium have surfaced repeatedly in past negotiating rounds and have tended to function as opening positions rather than concessions, with the stockpile's fate, verification terms, and sanctions sequencing the points where talks have historically stalled. The sourcing matters: remarks relayed through a third-party state wire rather than direct bilateral channels have typically carried less weight than statements through established intermediaries, and prior form shows Tehran's president speaking with less authority on nuclear files than the supreme leader's office, whose silence or endorsement is the tell that separates signal from positioning. The distinction that has mattered for crude is between headline de-escalation, which trims the geopolitical risk premium in front-month spreads and freight insurance, and verifiable sanctions relief, which is what actually returns barrels; only the latter has historically moved balances durably. Worth watching is any response from Washington, movement on enrichment verification language, and whether the supreme leader's office echoes the line.