US has informed mediators that Iran abandoning its nuclear programme is the basis for any negotiations, Al Arabiya reports, citing sources

US has informed mediators that Iran abandoning its nuclear programme is the basis for any negotiations, Al Arabiya reports, citing sources.

Preconditions communicated through intermediaries rather than directly are the standard opening posture in US-Iran engagement, and episodes of this kind have historically run long: back-channel contact, public posturing around enrichment, then either a structured negotiation track or a slow fade back into sanctions enforcement. The distinction that matters for crude is between talks that merely exist and talks that plausibly lead somewhere, since the former has tended to cap the geopolitical risk premium in WTI while the latter begins to price the return of Iranian barrels to the market. The maximalist framing, full abandonment as the basis rather than an interim freeze, has in past rounds been a starting position rather than a terminal one, and the tell has been whether either side quietly moderates it through the same mediator channel. Worth watching is any counter-signal from Tehran, mediator confirmation of follow-on rounds, and whether the enforcement side, shipping insurance, shadow fleet designations, and enforcement of existing export restrictions, tightens or loosens in parallel. The transmission channel into oil runs through the probability-weighted supply path: Iranian export volumes, not the diplomatic language itself, are what have historically moved the curve, with the back end reacting to supply expectations and the front end to any escalation risk. As a first-stance leak rather than a negotiated outcome, the signal is directional and early.