US Republican Senator Lindsey Graham told Fox News that Iran has enough highly enriched uranium to make six nuclear bombs.
"They will use it, destroy Israel, and then come for us."
The politician did not explain where he got this information.
On March 7, the head of the US Central Command (CENTCOM), General Michael Kurila, said that Tehran had not made a decision to develop nuclear weapons. In mid-January, Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian told NBC News that Tehran was not pursuing the goal of creating a nuclear weapon.
The scheduled April 12 talks between Iran and the United States will be direct, White House press secretary Caroline Leavitt said at a regular briefing for journalists, commenting on Iranian statements that the upcoming contacts would be carried out through an intermediary.
“The talks on Saturday will be direct, but I will not prevent the president from disclosing additional details,“ Leavitt added.
On March 7, Trump said he had sent a message to Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, offering to hold talks on Tehran's nuclear program. At the end of March, Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi noted that Tehran had used Oman's mediation services to send a response to the letter from the head of the US administration.
On Monday, it became known that after the correspondence, the parties had agreed to hold the first round of negotiations on April 12 in Oman. The main participants in the meeting will be Araghchi and the special envoy of the US President, Stephen Witkoff. According to the information provided by Trump on April 7, contacts between the US and Iran will be direct. According to the head of Iranian diplomacy, Tehran has chosen the option of conducting negotiations with the US through mediators in order to avoid pressure from Washington, and does not plan to change the format after the meeting in Oman.